Trailer
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When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before

Runtime
1hr 56mins
Directed by
Sonja Heiss
Featuring
Devid Striesow,
Laura Tonke,
Arsseni Bultmann
Film Language
in German, English, & Italian w/ English Subtitles
Body

Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family.

They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks...

Based on the autobiographical novel by Joachim Meyerhoff, this incredibly funny and moving film deals with how hard it is to be a family. It may not be a normal family, but who wants to be normal, anyway?

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