Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Matthias Glasner Fotografia / Photography: Jakub Bejnarowicz Montaggio / Editing: Heike Gnida Musica / Music: Lorenz Dangel Suono / Sound: Christoph Schilling, Stefan Schmahl, Christoph Walter, Stefan Korte, Nils Vogel-Bartling Scenografia / Set Designer: Tamo Kunz Costumi / Costume Designer: Sabine Keller Interpreti / Cast: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg, Ronald Zehrfeld, Robert Gwisdek, Anna Bederke, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Saskia Rosendahl Produzione / Produced by: Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion, Schwarzweiss Filmproduktion, Senator Film Produktion Coproduzione / Co-produced by: ZDF / Arte In Association with / In associazione con: Rotor Film, WeFadeToGrey, Magic Media Production Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, MOIN Filmfƶrderung Hamburg Schleswig- Holstein, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Filmund Fernsehfonds Bayern, Nordmedia, BKM, FFA, DFFF Distribuzione internazionale / World Sales: The Match Factory Distribuzione per lāItalia / Distributed in Italy by: Satine Film
Dying follows the very individual members of the Lunies family, who havenāt been a family for a long time. Lissy is quietly happy about her demented husband Gerd slowly wasting away in a home. But her new freedom is short-lived: Diabetes, cancer and kidney failure mean that she doesnāt have much time left either. Son Tom, a conductor in his early 40s, is working on a composition called Dying, while at the same time being made the surrogate father of his ex-girlfriendās child. And Tomās sister Ellen starts an affair with the married Sebastian, with whom she shares a love for alcohol. As Death finally turns up on the doorstep, the estranged family members finally meet again. The film premiered at the Berlinale in 2024, winning the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.
āIām sitting in a coffee shop, just a few steps away from our flat. My first child, just born, is waiting for me to push her through the park so that she can finally fall asleep. I want to sleep too, but I canāt. I stare out of the window, out onto the street, Schƶnhauser and Danziger. And I see the ghosts of my parents, who have never been here, standing there in the middle of the traffic. They recently died in quick succession, after a long period of suffering. I want to finally get close to them, which I never managed to do during their lives. And the only way for me to get close to anything or anyone at all is to make a film.ā (M. Glasner)
Matthias Glasner
Film director and writer, Matthias Glasner was born in Hamburg in 1965. In the 90s, he made the cinema trilogy Die Mediocren, Sexy Sadie and Fandango, all of which premiered at the Berlinale. This was followed by the films The Free Will (winner of the Trieste FF in 2007)and Mercy ā both in competition at the Berlinale ā and This is Love (in competition at San Sebastian). For television, he has directed the series KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst and, as writer and director, the series Blochin – The Living and the Dead, as well as the two-part series Landgericht based on the novel of the same name and winner of the German Book Prize by Ulrike Krechel.
filmografia scelta / selected filmography
1995 Die Mediocren 1996 Sexy Sadie 2000 Fandango 2006 Der freie Wille (The Free Will); Premi / Awards: Trieste FF ā Miglior lungometraggio / Best Feature Film 2009 This is Love 2011 Gnade (Mercy) 2024 Sterben (Lo spartito della vita / Dying); Premi / Awards: Berlinale ā Orso dāargento per la Miglior sceneggiatura, Premio della giuria dei lettori di Ā«Berliner MorgenpostĀ», Miglior film per lāAssociazione dei Cinema dāEssai tedeschi / Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, Guild Film Award, āBerliner Morgenpostā Readersā Jury Award, Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas; Premi Lola ā Miglior film / Lola Awards ā Best Film
