Two Mothers

Katja and Isabella, a gay couple from Germany, decide to have a baby. Soon enough, this simple, natural desire stumbles onto countless obstacles, legal gaps and chauvinist attitudes as the two women live through their own private Odyssey.

Katja and Isabella, a gay couple from Germany, decide to have a baby. Soon enough, this simple, natural desire stumbles onto countless obstacles, legal gaps and chauvinist attitudes as the two women live through their own private Odyssey. Countless fruitless appointments at sperm banks, meetings with specialists, fertility clinics and sperm donors later, their quest turns into a jumble of bureaucratic dead ends and moral dilemmas that will test their patience and their relationship.

Shot with disarming simplicity, heavily indebted to the naturalistic delivery of the two leading ladies (Karina Plachetka and Sabine Wolf) and the director’s prior experience with documentary, Anne Zohra Berrached’s narrative debut isn’t just timely but it aptly highlights the difficulties faced by a homosexual couple, even in a country as advanced and as forward thinking as Germany. Official selection at the last Berlinale. Th.P.

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Εναλλακτικοί τίτλοι / Alternative titles: Zwei Mutter / Two Mothers

Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Anne Zohra Berrached

Σενάριο / Screenwriter: Anne Zohra Berrached

Φωτογραφία / DoP: Friede Clausz

Μουσική / Music: Jasmin Reuter

Μοντάζ / Editor: Denys Darahan

Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast: Karina Plachetka, Sabine Wolf, Florian Weber, Dr. Marten Van Santen, Tilmann A. Müller, Joachim Welz

Γερμανία / Germany
2013
Εγχρωμο / Color
79’
Γερμανικά / German

* Screens on 21st September

Publication date: 2013-09-11 12:30:00

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