Home for the Weekend

Home for the Weekend
  • Release date: 6 Sep 2012
  • Release year: 2012
  • Runtime: 85 minutes
  • Country: Germany
  • Keywords: dignity, housewife, marital infidelity, dream reality, saving a life, missing mother, liberation, delusion, self delusion, manic depression
Plot:
Marko is in his mid-thirties, has just published his first book, and has been living in Berlin since his university days - far enough away from his parents Gitte and Gunter whose bourgeois lifestyle he could never quite get used to. He visits them once or twice a year, mainly to give them a chance to spend a few days with their grandson. His hopes of spending a quiet weekend with the family fall short when Gitte, who has been mentally unstable since Marko was a child, feels so healthy after a homeopathic treatment that she stops taking her medication. Her announcement triggers reserved reactions in the family, and a series of revelations tip his family's structure out of balance.
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