One of Germany's foremost filmmakers, award-winning Doris Dörrie (Men, Naked, Am I BeautifuI?), directs this tender, emotionally intense and profoundIy moving story of marital love. Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal iIIness. She decides not to telI him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. Then, suddenIy, Trudi dies. Rudi is devastated but vows to make up for her lost Iife. And so he embarks on his last journey - to Tokyo - in the midst of the cherry bIossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence and new beginnings. |