Geranien

On Mothers and Daughters
Actor Nina travels to her home town in Germany’s Ruhr region for her grandmother’s funeral and discovers that her childhood home has remained virtually unchanged. The canary still chirps in the living room, her mother still sits in the kitchen pitting kilos of plums from the garden, and her father still occasionally indulges in a whisky from the “bottom shelf next to the digestif glasses”. But when the date for the funeral is postponed, tensions flare up again between the pragmatic mother and her cosmopolitan daughter who now lives in a large European city and considers the offer of a role in German TV soap Traumschiff (Dreamboat) to be beneath her. And kindly old grandma is no longer there to cushion such conflicts.
Directed with gentle humour, DFFB graduate Tanja Egen’s perceptive feature debut is much more than just a tale of such classic family problems as repressed emotions, things that remain unspoken and a growing sense of distance. Rich in detail, Geranien is an affectionate observation of the complex relationships that exist between daughters and mothers – no matter how old a daughter and a mother may be. Loss, it seems, is a universal feeling.
by Tanja Egen
with Friederike Becht, Marion Ottschick, Peer Martiny, Jasmina Musić, Stefanie Meier
Germany 2023 German,  Subtitles: English 83’ World premiere | Debut film

Perspektive Match

On February 21, film sound engineer Daria Somesan will be a guest of the Perspektive Match series of films and talks.

With

  • Friederike Becht (Nina)
  • Marion Ottschick (Konnie)
  • Peer Martiny (Harald)
  • Jasmina Musić (Karo)
  • Stefanie Meier (Marion)
  • Aleksandra Ćorović (Chrissie)
  • Adi Hrustemović (Deniz)
  • Oliver Möller (Franz)
  • Bruno Kirchhof (Alfred)

Crew

DirectorTanja Egen
ScreenplayTanja Egen, Esther Preussler
CinematographyClaudia Schröder
EditingNicolas Dusollier
MusicPaul Eisenach, Jonas Hofer
Sound DesignBernd Biemüller
SoundDaria Somesan
Production DesignJana Donis, Hella Vohrmann
CostumesEugenia Giesbrecht
Make-UpNina Suchanoff
Assistant DirectorPaula Fritze
CastingTanja Egen
Production ManagerSina Lübke
ProducerCatherine Ann Berger
Executive ProducerAndreas Louis
Co-ProducersJakob Zimmermann, Tanja Egen
Co-ProductionZDF, Mainz

Produced by

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)

Berlin, Germany

www.dffb.de www.dffb.de

Tanja Egen

She was born and grew up in the Ruhr region of Germany and studied philosophy, art history and theatre at the Freie Universität Berlin as well as film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Geranien is her graduation film and her debut feature.

Filmography

2013 Together; short film 2016 Funke; short film 2017 Der Gesellschafter; short film 2023 Geranien (On Mothers and Daughters)

Dates

Mon Feb 20 12:00

Cubix 2

Screening for press and industry professionals | With accreditation only

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Mon Feb 20 19:00

International

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Tue Feb 21 16:30

Zoo Palast 3

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Tue Feb 21 16:30

Zoo Palast 4

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Tue Feb 21 16:30

Zoo Palast 5

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Wed Feb 22 10:00

Cubix 6

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Sun Feb 26 21:30

Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

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