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Director
  
Andreas Dresen

Music director
  
Jens Quandt

Country
  
Germany

7.7/10
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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
German

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Release date
  
15 May 2011 (2011-05-15) (Cannes)

Writer
  
Andreas Dresen (screenplay), Cooky Ziesche (screenplay)

Initial release
  
November 17, 2011 (Germany)

Screenplay
  
Andreas Dresen, Cooky Ziesche

Cast
  
Steffi Kühnert
(Simone Lange),
Milan Peschel
(Frank Lange),
Talisa Lilly Lemke
(Lilli Lange),
Mika Seidel
(Mika Lange),
Ursula Werner
(Renate),
Marie Rosa Tietjen
(Simone's Sister)

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Stopped on Track (German: Halt auf Freier Strecke) is a 2011 German drama film directed by Andreas Dresen. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Prize Un Certain Regard, the top award for best film in the section. The win was shared with the South Korean film Arirang, directed by Kim Ki-duk.

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Plot

The 44-year-old family man Frank Lange (Milan Peschel) has a proper job and lives with his wife Simone (Steffi Kühnert) and their children Lilly (Talisa Lilli Lemke) and Mika (Mika Seidel) in a modern serial house when he learns he suffers with an inoperable brain tumour and has only but a short time left. Supported by his family he uses an iPod to keep daily records of his decline. Radiation therapy and chemical treatment take their toll on him. Eventually he grows too weak to leave the house and has hallucinations during which his tumour seems to appear as a vain actor in a late-night talk show hosted by Germany's established TV presenter Harald Schmidt. His children are increasingly overstrained and so is his wife Simone. The tumour deprives Frank from memory, orientational ability and even control of basic body functions. Fighting the pain with always stronger doses of morphium he loses his true personality and finally his speech. Having become a nursing case of the highest degree he dies at last in his home amidst his family. When actually everybody is lost for words, his daughter Lilly, an ambitious diver, utters: "I have to attend training".

Cast

  • Milan Peschel as Frank
  • Steffi Kühnert as Simone
  • Mika Seidel as Mika
  • Talisa Lilli Lemke as Lilly
  • Otto Mellies as Frank's father Ernst
  • Ursula Werner as Simone`'s mother
  • Marie Rosa Tietjen as Simone's sister
  • Harald Schmidt as himself

    • Reception

    Authenticity is key to the success of Dresen's film

    Accolades

  • Rated as Besonders wertvoll (English: "Especially valuable") by Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung
  • 2012 Deutscher Filmpreis

    • References

    Stopped on Track Wikipedia
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