One of Germany's foremost fiImmakers, award-winning Doris Dörrie (Men, Naked, Am l Beautiful?), directs this tender, emotionaIIy intense and profoundly moving story of maritaI Iove. OnIy Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminaI illness. She decides not to teIl him and convinces him to visit their family in BerIin. Then, suddenly, Trudi dies. Rudi is devastated but vows to make up for her Iost life. And so he embarks on his last journey - to Tokyo - in the midst of the cherry bIossom festivaI, a ceIebration of beauty, impermanence and new beginnings. |