Director: Matti Geschonneck
Script: Hannah Hollinger
Photography: Carl F. Koschnik
Editor: Inge Behrens
Music: Hansjörg Kohli
Production Design: Andreas Hülzer, Bernd Gaebler
Casting: Sandra Köppe
Principal Cast: Maja Maranow, Friedrich von Thun, Nicole Heesters, Katharina Böhm, Thomas Dannemann, Dietz-Werner Steck, Bernhard Schütz
Producer: Reinhold Elschot
Production: Network Movie for ZDF
Commissioning Editor ZDF: Daniel Blum
Distribution: Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion
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Selected Filmography Matti Geschonneck: Möbius, 1993; Der Mörder und sein Kind, 1995; Angst hat eine kalte Hand, 1996; Angeschlagen, 1997; Reise in die Nacht, 1998; Ganz unten, ganz oben, 1999; Späte Rache, 2001; Liebe Schwester, 2002; Die Mutter, 2002; Die Ärztin, 2004; Mord am Meer, 2005; Die Nachrichten, 2005; Silberhochzeit, 2006; Die Tote vom Deich, 2006; Duell in der Nacht, 2007.
Nothing is as it initially appears in this made-for-television movie by 2006 German Television Award winner Matti Geschonneck. After a long spell abroad, Annabelle returns to Germany to join her brother for a family reunion, where she is shocked to the core about the news she learns. Her father placidly states that he has cancer, and that her mother faces a leg amputation, which is why the two of them have agreed upon ending their own lives. The decision has been made, and an appointment with a Dutch doctor has already been arranged. But the father survives. What begins like a drama on medically assisted suicide gradually reveals itself as a thriller about a family in which any semblance of bourgeois normalcy is demolished.