Alive

Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer. They have to say goodbye to family and friends. They navigate their fear, pain, and physical decline, but a tender love takes root. A stunning, non-linear exploration of human relationships, of love and time shared through the denouement of terminal diagnosis. "Michael Siebert takes his audience on a journey of concentrated human emotions and invites to an open confrontation with death. From turbulent celebratory mood to lonely togetherness, the film offers a deep insight into life with an incurable disease and the question of the right to end one's own life." (FILMZ Mainz)

Keywords

  • Love
  • Politics: Human Rights
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Sooner Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Aging
  • conflict
  • family
  • moving

Actors

  • Sophie von Kessel
  • Wolfram Rupperti
  • Ulrike Willenbacher
  • Cynthia Micas
  • Paul Wolff-Plottegg

Director

  • Michael Siebert

Drama, Independent


1h 34min


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Germany
2019
Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer.

Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer.


Sophie and Wolfram meet in the hospital and set off together on their final journey. Both are terminally ill with cancer.


They have to say goodbye to family and friends. They navigate their fear, pain, and physical decline, but a tender love takes root.


A stunning, non-linear exploration of human relationships, of love and time shared through the denouement of terminal diagnosis.


"Michael Siebert takes his audience on a journey of concentrated human emotions and invites to an open confrontation with death. From turbulent celebratory mood to lonely togetherness, the film offers a deep insight into life with an incurable disease and the question of the right to end one's own life." (FILMZ Mainz)

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Cast & Crew