LAMENTO

By Jöns JÖNSSON

MISSINGFILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, DVD-video, GERMANY

Drama - Completed 2014


Festivals
& Awards

berlin international film festival 2014
Perspective German Cinema
First Step Awards 2014
Best Feature Film
Shangai International Film Festival 2015
Spectrum
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, SWEDEN
    • Languages
    • GERMAN, SWEDISH, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jöns JÖNSSON
    • Producer(s)
    • Maxim JURETZKA (Buntfilm), Jost HERING (JOST HERING FILMPRODUKTION)
    • Synopsis
    • Magdalena picks up her grand-son from piano lessons, eats dinner with his family, visits the bar. She unsuccessfully tries to sell her daughters dog, she consults a medium. Since Sara ́s suicide, Magdalena shields herself from the pain and loss of her daughter, by immersing herself into rituals of everyday life. It is only when Sara ́s ex-boyfriend comes to visit, that sorrow finally finds its way through denial, speachlessness and feelings of guilt.