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In Times of Fading Light

In Times of Fading Light

Original Title : In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts
English Title : In Times of Fading Light
Country : Germany
Language : German | Russian
Year : 2017
Runtime : 100 min
Director : Matti Geschonneck Venue: Mangla
Screen: Screen 4
Showtime: 12th Jan 2018, 1.45 p.m.
Venue: Carnival Cinema, Mumbai Pune Road
Screen: Screen 3
Showtime: 14th Jan 2018, 6.00 p.m.

Festivals & Awards

Berlin International Film Festival | German Film Awards

Synopsis

East Berlin, in the early autumn of '89. The Powileit family celebrates the 90th birthday of Wilhelm, a former resistance fighter, returned expatriate and incorrigible Stalinist. His wife Charlotte is hosting the festivities where neighbours, acquaintances and dignitaries deliver flowers and give speeches as if nothing were amiss in the outside world. But someone is missing, and he is the only one who in Charlotte's opinion knows how to set up the extending table for the cold buffet: Sascha, her grandson. No one suspects that Sascha fled to West Germany just a few days ago…

Through the eyes of Sascha's father, Kurt – a historian, Gulag survivor, unhappily married to the Russian Irina – we experience “In Times of Fading Light” as a snapshot in time, showing us disintegration of a family and a political system.

Director’s Biography

Matti Geschonneck