Summer 1976. It’s the height of summer. A heat wave. Everybody is sweating. The wasps are even more annoying than usual. The portrait of a family who spends the summer – like every summer – in their communal garden. The death of overbearing matriarch Sophie reveals fine cracks within the family’s relationships and subtly changes the family dynamics. While the adults argue about the sale of the property, the children are free to roam the garden and the neighbourhood.
The Garden
- Year
- 2017
- In co-production with
- BR, WDR
- Director
- Sonja Kröner
- Screenplay
- Sonja Kröner
- Starring
- Katja Brenner, Jonathan Bähr, Peter Clös, Günther Maria Halmer, Grischa Huber, Mavie Hörbiger, Thomas Loibl, Inge Maux, Emilia Pieske, Astrid Polak, Christine Schorn, Elliott Schulte, Johannes Silberschneider, Laura Tonke, Anne-Marie Weisz, Ursula Werner, Marcus Widmann
- Awards
- Munich International Film Fest 2017: Promotional Award New German Cinema for Production & Direction, Bavarian Film Awards 2017: Best Screenplay
- Festivals
Munich International Film Festival / Toronto International Film Festival / Mostra Sao Paulo International Film Festival /Thessaloniki International Film Festival /Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival / Filmfestival Münster -Opening Film (2017) / Festival of German Films New York / International Filmfestival Braunschweig
