Coming of Age ( Anfang 80 )

Coming of Age (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Anfang 80
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Montreal World Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Gerhard Ertl
Sabine Hiebler

Written By:
Gerhard Ertl
Sabine Hiebler

Actors:
Christine Ostermayer ..... Rosa
Karl Merkatz ..... Bruno
Erni Mangold ..... Herta
Branko Samarovski ..... Karl
Susi Stach ..... Waltraud
Joseph Lorenz ..... Werner
Claudia Martini ..... Evelyne
Tanja Petrovsky ..... Heimleiterin
Julia Jelinek ..... Röntgenschwester
Inge Maux ..... Frau Binders Schwester
Anton Noori ..... Krankenhausarzt
Martin Oberhauser ..... Polizist
Carola Pojer ..... Tierarzt-Schwester
Manfred Sarközi ..... Rettungsfahrer
Margarete Tiesel ..... Frau Binder

Synopsis:

COMING OF AGE: True love knows no boundaries, not even when it comes to age. Rosa (Christine Ostermayer) meets Bruno (Karl Merkatz). Two people who consider themselves to be over the hill and irrelevant in today's world suddenly learn what it means to pursue once-in-a-lifetime happiness. To find one's soulmate. Loving and laughing together. The only problem: Rosa has cancer and only six months to live. The two decide to go for it anyway. Bruno breaks out of his marriage and a family life where everything's been routine for some time ago, and Rosa runs away from the hospitals and retirement homes where her niece hoped she would quietly disappear. They set up house together, and are then forced to face the question of whether happiness has an expiration date. Or if memories of special moments with the kind of a person you meet only once are much more important. COMING OF AGE is a touching film about a special couple living in a society that shuts out its older members. A romance involving individuals who aren't usually seen as lovers, who then do everything they can to prove the world wrong: It's never too late for a new love.

Does luck have a use by date? Both thought that at eighty they have experienced everything until, like a bolt of lightening, Rosa and Bruno come together and immediately fall head over heels. There are two obstacles to their happiness though: Bruno's marriage, which has long been routine, and Rosa's illness; she has cancer and not long left to live. Despite the difficult circumstances, the two decide to breakaway - Bruno from his relationship and Rosa from her retirement home. Against the advice of carers, doctors and relatives, the pair moves into a new apartment together. ANFANG 80 shows with a great deal of unequivocal humour how insensitively and sometimes desperately overburdened society reacts to love among the elderly.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 17 December, 2012.

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