CFCP German Movie Night - Kill Daddy Good Night / Das Vaterspiel

29.04.2012 at 7pm
Tickets €6 

As part of our regular German Language Meet Up at CFCP we are hosting the monthly screening of German films on Sunday evening. To keep the night open to everybody all films are shown with the English subtitles. As usual feel free to bring your own drinks!

ill Daddy Good Night / Das Vaterspiel, drama, 2009, by Michael Glawogger

117 min, German with English subtitles

“They say you can take the man from the country, but you can't take the country from the man.”

Sabine Timoteo as Mimi is the focal point of this movie. Her performance alone would well make it worth your while but Austrian writer-director Michael Glawogger doesn't only give us the girl of a thousand faces. He has also made an engaging and entertaining movie about a range of very serious subjects: growing up and growing old, secrets and lies, guilt and forgiveness, rage and revenge. He succeeds by focusing on just a few pieces of the puzzle, and sticking with them to the end. I loved how the computer game that is part of the plot seeps into the movie at crucial moments. Outstanding performances by Ulrich Tukur as a witness to the Nazi genocide, and by Itzhak and Samuel Finzi as the objects of his testimony. Guest appearance by comedian Christian Tramitz as a corrupt politician and failing father. He should try his hand at serious parts more often. He more than holds his own in this sophisticated movie for grown-up people.