Dying

Feature Film/ Germany/180 min/2024

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Director: Matthias Glasner

Screenwriter: Matthias Glasner

Director of Photography: Jakub Bejnarowicz

Production: Jan Krüger, Ulf Israel, Matthias Glasner

Music Composer: Lorenz Dangel

Production Design: Tamo Kunz

Cast: Liz Stutzky

Synopsis:

With death looming for both elders of the Lunies clan, their estranged children are forced to meet once more, while dealing with their own tumultuous dramas. Tom (Lars Eidinger), a conductor in his early forties, is working on a composition called “Dying,” while also acting as the surrogate father of his ex-girlfriend’s child. Meanwhile, his sister Ellen (Lilith Stangenberg) begins a destructive affair with a married man. As their lives converge, age-old enmities rise to the surface.

Director’s biography:

Matthias Glasner was born in Hamburg in 1965. His trilogy of films Die Mediocren, Sexy Sadie, and Fandango premiered at the Berlinale during the 1990s, and his features The Free Will and Mercy were also Berlinale selected. Glasner also directed the television series Blochin, selected in the 2015 Berlinale Special Series section.

Filmography: Die Mediocren (1995); Sexy Sadie (1996); Fandango (2000); Der Freie Wille (2006); This is Love (2009); Gnade (2011)