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Eileen Byrne | Luxembourg, Italy, Austria, 2023
Fiction Feature | FF2024

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Story

A thousand tears deep: a tragicomic road movie about the sadness of an odd couple on their way to Italy. Paula (Luna Wedler) is going through a phase of deep mourning after losing her little brother to the sea at Trieste. Plagued by feelings of guilt, she seems to have lost the will to live. When she comes across grumpy old Helmut (Edgar Selge), who is taking the urn containing his wife’s ashes to Italy, she finally sees a glimmer of hope: in Trieste, she will at last be able to feel close to her brother again. On the eventful journey, she and Helmut develop an unexpected friendship – which awakens new joie de vivre in Paula.

 

 

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Director

EILEEN BYRNE (*1984 in Luxemburg) studied Direction at the HFF Munich. Her graduation film Was bleibt (2018) won several prizes. Marianengraben is her debut feature.

Info

Marianengraben

Fiction Feature

German

Kaleidoscope | FF2024


Luxembourg, Italy, Austria

2023

82 min

OV with English subtitles

Eileen Byrne

Eileen Byrne basierend auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Jasmin Schreiber

Luna Wedler, Edgar Selge

Bernard Michaux

Petra Korner

Flora Rajakowitsch, Rudolf Pototschnig, Laurenz Öllinger

Barbara Seidler

Claire Parsons

Martin Reiter

lldiko Okolicsanyi

Rebekka Abatiello

Alamode Filmdistribution ohG

Samsa Film

Abolina Film, Film AG

Tags

AgeingFamily and RelationshipsFriendshipHumourLiteratureFemale DirectorsTravellingRoad MovieDeath and Loss

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