Letter To My Life
Filmfest 2015
(Brief an mein Leben)
Germany 2015
Original version
(Original: German)
World Premiere
Director: Urs Egger
Section: New German TV Movies
Toni calls herself a global citizen, and proudly so. When she's not jetting around the world attending international conferences, the young and successful academic splits her time between her university, where she's a professor of oceanography, her partner Maria's home, and her own hometown, where her completely overwhelmed father is taking care of her dying mother. Toni's fast-paced life catches up with her, eventually landing her in a psychiatric ward where she demands that her doctor come up with a quick cure. But her obsession with efficiency isn't getting her anywhere… Like all new patients she's assigned a 'buddy patient', a woman named Steffi. Toni, of course, can’t stand Steffi, and the doctors – especially the head physician whose cheerful demeanor she abhors – are also rubbing her the wrong way. In other words Toni blames everyone else instead of dealing with her own issues. Tough as it may be, Toni has to find a way to put the pieces of her life back together...
Photos © Bavaria Fernsehproduktion/ZDF/Conny Klein
Cast: Marie Bäumer, Christina Hecke, Hanns Zischler, Annette Paulmann, Petra Morzé
Credits
Screenplay: Laila Stieler
Original Material: Miriam Meckel
Director of Photography: Wojciech Szepel, David Slama
Film Editor: Benjamin Hembus
Composer: Ina Siefert, Nellis du Biel
Production Designer: Knut Loewe
Costume Design: Heike Hütt
Sound: Michael Eiler
Producer: Anna Oeller
Production Company: Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH
Director: Urs Egger
Editor: Günther van Endert (ZDF)
TV channel: Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
