Emma's Bliss ( Emmas Glück ) ( Emma, la afortunada )

Emma's Bliss (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Emmas Glück
Alternate Title: Emma, la afortunada
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
99 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Sven Taddicken

Written By:
Ruth Toma
Claudia Schreiber

Actors:
Jördis Triebel ..... Emma Struwe
Jürgen Vogel ..... Max Bien
Maik Solbach ..... Arzt
Martin Feifel ..... Hans Hilfinger
Anja Leppehof ..... Kundin im Autohaus
Nina Petri ..... Dagmar
Julia Beerhold ..... Familie im Autohaus
Sebastian Rüger ..... Familie im Autohaus
Alina Schrader ..... Familie im Autohaus
Moritz Macher ..... Familie im Autohaus
Hinnerk Schönemann ..... Henner
Karin Neuhäuser ..... Henners Mutter
Steffen Schroeder ..... Jaguarbesitzer
Arved Birnbaum ..... Karl
Martina Eitner-Acheampong ..... Krämerin

Synopsis:

Emma lives as a pig-breeder at the shabby and hopelessly indebted farm of her ancestors. She slaughters the pigs in her own true way she treats them lovingly till the last day the lethal cut shows something like tenderness and in Emma's strong arms the dying animals cease bleeding calmly and submittingly. But Emma is lonely. Only Henner the good-natured and somehow simple country policeman proposes to her in regular intervals. Emma refuses because she lives in mutual hatred with his intrusive and omnipresent mother. If need be the missing man is replaced by her motor-bike with its wonderfully noncircular flywheel and the bike's heavily vibrating saddle pleases her extremely from time to time. But the loneliness stays. One night a Jaguar smashes on her farm. Inside the wrecked car lies an unconscious man and a bag full of money. Emma's luck seems to be perfect fate has thrown money into her lap and furthermore has given a man to her who smells exactly the way she has always dreamt of. Max - that's the man's name a fanatic for order and lover of vegetables - has stolen the bag with the illicit money from Hans his only and best friend and employer who is as shrewd as they come. This robbery doesn't correspond with his wait and see nature but Max is seriously ill because of cancer of the pancreas he has only a few weeks left to live.

First-time German writer-director Sven Taddicken authors and helms the unconventional romance Emmas Gluck (AKA Emmas Bliss, 2006). The film opens on Max (Jordis Triebel), an ungifted car salesman who learns from his physician that he's dying of pancreatic cancer and only has a short time to live. On impulse, Max lifts a large sum of cash from his boss's holdings, and takes off for Mexican beaches. An auto accident, however, waylays him, and he has a chance encounter with Emma, a slightly hostile and thoroughly lonely pig breeder who opts to slaughter her hogs by holding them gently until all of the blood drains out. Emma instantly grows smitten with Max (and her excitement doubles when she learns of the money he pilfered; Max, in return, falls in love with Emma, and the romance drives the encroaching cancer completely out of his mind.

A mediocre car salesman suddenly learns that he has terminal pancreatic cancer. His plans to spend the last days of his life in a Mexican paradise are foiled by a chance car accident pointing his steps towards a pig farm run by a dry, lonely, deeply indebted girl and an affair.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 05 April, 2011.

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