Vacation

Four generations meet at a country house. Scenes of veiled jealousy and open teasing, candid confessions and fisticuffs, crack the thin veneer of an idyllic summer vacation. "I wanted to make a film without flashy dramaturgical momentum. I was concerned with finding a balance between the individual storylines and setting them in motion over the course of the film. All the characters who are struggling have only one life. They're all trying to be happy, but they don't know how to do it. It's a long, slow drop to recognition." (Thomas Arslan)

Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Berliner Schule
  • Filmgalerie 451
  • Thomas Arslan
  • family
  • social drama

Actors

  • Karoline Eichhorn
  • Uwe Bohm
  • Gudrun Ritter
  • Angela Winkler
  • Anja Schneider

Director

  • Thomas Arslan

Drama


1h 32min


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Germany
2007
Jealousy and biting jokes about old wounds start slowly, but build until bald-face confessions and hand-to-hand scuffles take over.

Jealousy and biting jokes about old wounds start slowly, but build until bald-face confessions and hand-to-hand scuffles take over.


Four generations meet at a country house. Scenes of veiled jealousy and open teasing, candid confessions and fisticuffs, crack the thin veneer of an idyllic summer vacation.


"I wanted to make a film without flashy dramaturgical momentum. I was concerned with finding a balance between the individual storylines and setting them in motion over the course of the film. All the characters who are struggling have only one life. They're all trying to be happy, but they don't know how to do it. It's a long, slow drop to recognition." (Thomas Arslan)

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