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While his mother nags him to finally find a woman, Manuel much prefers to live in his own cocoon made of plants and flowers. But the young ice cream vendor Victoria has cast an eye on the timid gardener. Her efforts to get closer to Manuel know no bounds and violate more than one limit. "I was not able to make a big changes to the screenplay. I thought it was a very sweet, little love story, almost like a fairy tale movie, and then I said, ok then, we have to make a fairy tale movie and go a bit over the top with it." (Max Hegewald)

Keywords

  • Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
  • Label: Darling Berlin
  • Love
  • Made in Germany
  • Young Talent
  • Berlin
  • disability
  • neurodiversity

Actors

  • Maja Lehrer
  • Philipp Buder
  • Babett Arens
  • Uwe Dag Berlin
  • Milton Welsh

Director

  • Max Hegewald

Love & Sex


39min


16+

DE

Germany
2014
Manuel, an autism-prone gardener, is nagged by his mother to find a woman. But he prefers to live in his own cocoon made of plants and flowers.

Manuel, an autism-prone gardener, is nagged by his mother to find a woman. But he prefers to live in his own cocoon made of plants and flowers.


While his mother nags him to finally find a woman, Manuel much prefers to live in his own cocoon made of plants and flowers. But the young ice cream vendor Victoria has cast an eye on the timid gardener. Her efforts to get closer to Manuel know no bounds and violate more than one limit.


"I was not able to make a big changes to the screenplay. I thought it was a very sweet, little love story, almost like a fairy tale movie, and then I said, ok then, we have to make a fairy tale movie and go a bit over the top with it." (Max Hegewald)

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