Titel: Endless farewell   Feature 1994 Duration: 75 Minuten Format: Betacam SP Direction: Mathias Allary Script: Mathias Allary Cast: Hilde Ziegler, Helmut Griem, Susanna Simon More: Cast and Crew Press review

Content

To finally have enough time to realise their travel plans they have dreamed of all their life, Marianne (Hilde Ziegler) and Heinrich Steinmann (Helmut Griem) have handed over their print shop to their daughter Petra

But than Marianne changes. Steady sleeplessness leads to Mariannes confusion and an illness spreads out in her body which destroys her personality: Alzheimer.

Heinrich fights against his doubts, the alienation, his fear and the fact that he cannot abide the facade of a normal life. Within this situation there is a brawl between Heinrich and his daughter Petra who accuses him of treating Marianne like a little child and thereby forces her to be dependent on him. Although he does not want to lose his wife and wants to gain the sympathy of his daughter again, he decides to search a nursing home for Marianne. But than his wife disappears...

Within only fifteen days of shooting the actors were able to show the dimensions of a family disaster caused by Alzheimer. Endless farewell is a love story that takes place between hope and desperation. It is full of human weaknesses and a great human warmth.