The Second Life (2007)

Movie
Original title	the second Life
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2007
Rod
Director	Florian Gärtner
script	Elke Rössler , Florian Gärtner
production	Christian Granderath , Markéta Polednová
music	Maurus Ronner
camera	Marc Liesendahl
cut	Anja von Rüxleben
occupation
Rosemarie Fendel : Anne Kreutzer Hans-Michael Rehberg : Alfred Kreutzer Suzanne von Borsody : Gabi Kreutzer Gottfried John : Robert Kreutzer (Alfred's brother) Monika Manz : Traudel Proschat Madani : Leyla Nicolás Solar Lozier : Rashid (Alfred's son) Oliver Stokowski : Diether (ex-boyfriend of daughter Gabi)

The second life is a German drama. The film was first broadcast on Rosemarie Fendel's 80th birthday in April 2007 on ARD . On the occasion of the death of Rosemarie Fendel, the television film was repeated on March 14, 2013 in prime time on ARD and achieved the highest TV rate of the day with 4.75 million viewers.

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Anne Kreutzer has been happily married to her husband Alfred for almost 50 years. Alfred works as a respected, emeritus law professor and now judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. In Würzburg they live in a beautiful house and have an idiosyncratic daughter: Gabi.

When Alfred suddenly dies of heart failure while rescuing a dog from the river Main shortly before the golden wedding anniversary, a world collapses for Anne. She receives a letter from the tax office, according to which she owes almost 200,000 euros in tax and must find out that her husband has led a double life in Strasbourg for 20 years with a much younger wife and a son.

Reviews

“(TV) drama in which an existence turns out to be an all too self-satisfied dream. The main character is not thought through consistently enough, but the fabulous main actress always compensates for this. Without being overloaded by an overly politically correct multicultural story, a good film of low tones could have been made thanks to the rather melancholy mood. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• The second life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The second life in the lexicon of international film
• The second life at kino.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The second life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .