Thomas and Hanna, a deliriously happy couple in their late 30s, buy an old house in the country with plans to fix it up over the summer. Hanna is looking forward to their time together – so when Thomas invites his older brother, Friedrich, who is deeply depressed over the failure of both his business and his marriage, to join them, she is disappointed by the intrusion. Easygoing, charming, and talkative, Thomas seeks to counterbalance the cloudier mood with an impetuous frenzy of activity, but Hanna retreats into sullenness and retaliates by bringing in her nubile young godchild Augustine until things smooth themselves out. Augustine’s youthful sexiness has anything but a soothing impact on Thomas, however, whose adolescent impulses linger just below the surface.
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Cast
24 people
Marie Bäumer
Hanna
Known for
Napoleon
Manitou's Shoe
Milan Peschel
Thomas
Known for
The Captain
Break Up Man
Sebastian Schipper
Henning Ferber
Tamo Kunz
Anna Brüggemann
Augustine
Known for
Move
Eric Friedler
Matthias Lempert
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
André Hennicke
Friedrich
Known for
A Dangerous Method
Pandorum
Doris J. Heinze
Tom Sternitzke
Sebastian Schipper Director · Uwe Kirbach Composer Frank Blau Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $134K · United States release February 8, 2009 · Produced in Germany
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Worldwide gross
$134,281
Production
Film 1
Production
Arte
Production
Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Production
Senator Film Produktion
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Germany
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Original title
Mitte Ende August
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
Germany · February 8, 2009
Theatrical
United States · February 8, 2009
Theatrical
Finland
August 23, 2009 · Espoo Film Festival
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