There are worse things than having to travel to Lake Lugano for an interview with a writer, but Daniel Mandelkern (Albrecht Schuch) takes some worries with him: he has a falling out with his wife, he is gripped by general frustration, and the writer there even wants to don’t talk to him. It’s a good thing that he meets the interesting Finn Tuuli (Alina Tomnikow) on the trip – who then turns out to be the ex-girlfriend of Mark Svensson (Friedrich Mücke), the mysterious author in whose villa the journalist is even allowed to live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_GLdkBW3Mc
Not everything is completely realistic in the film adaptation of Thomas Pletzinger’s novel “The Funeral of a Dog”, but the entanglements of the characters do not leave you indifferent, and elegant leaps in time and chic changes of location (Colombia, Finland, New York) provide additional tension. Soon it’s about life and death, but above all about the question of what love can endure. The only drawback: A cockfight doesn’t have to be shown in epic proportions, that’s not an original show effect, just repulsive. (Sky)
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