Golden Years
Die goldenen Jahre
Directed by Barbara KulcsarCast: Esther Gemsch, Gundi Ellert, Isabelle Barth, Stefan Kurt, Ueli Jäggi
- Cinema Panorama, Swiss Film & Talks
- Switzerland
- Aging, Comedy, Community, Drama, Romance
- French, German, Swiss German
- Subtitled
- 91 mins
- Northern California premiere
In Person at the Festival: Petra Volpe, Screenwriter
Alice and Peter are celebrating their retirement and are looking forward to a new phase in their lives. Then Alice finds out that her best friend Magalie, who dies completely unexpectedly, had been having an affair in France for 15 years. The confrontation with the finiteness of life plunges Peter into an existential crisis: to the great chagrin of Alice, who is a bon vivant, he becomes a total health fanatic. When Peter invites Heinz, Magalie’s widowed husband, to join him on a cruise, which Alice hopes will breathe new life into a marriage, their harmonious retirement is over.
Presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco
US Distributor: Music Box Films, Chicago