Die goldenen Jahre

Berlin & Beyond: Golden Years

  • Two bare-chested balding men in speedos reading the same book as they enjoy their vacation with a gray-haired woman in a pink summer dress sitting closeby

Alice and Peter are celebrating their retirement and are looking forward to a new phase in their lives. Then Alice finds out that her best friend Magalie, who dies completely unexpectedly, had been having an affair in France for 15 years. The confrontation with the finiteness of life plunges Peter into an existential crisis: to the great chagrin of Alice, who is a bon vivant, he becomes a total health fanatic. When Peter invites Heinz, Magalie’s widowed husband, to join him on a cruise, which Alice hopes will breathe new life into a marriage, their harmonious retirement is over.

Presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco.

Runtime
1h 32m
Year
2022
Director
Barbara Kulcsar
Format
Digital
Country
Switzerland
Language
French, German, and Swiss German with English subtitles