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Original Name: Kirschblüten & Dämonen
English Name: Cherry Blossoms and Demons
Year: 2019
Run Time: 110'
Language: German, Japanese, English
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Germany
Director: Dorris Dörrie
Producer: Viola Jäger, Anita Schneider
Cast: Golo Euler, Aya Irizuki, Felix Eitner, Floriane Daniel, Birgit Minichmayr
Screenplay: Doris Dörrie
Cinematographer: Hanno Lentz
Editor: Frank J. Müller
Sound Designer: Rainer Plabst
Music Composer: Karsten Fundal
Costume Designer: Natascha Curtius-Noss , Tony Crosbie
Production Designer: Debora Reischmann, Tony Crosbie
Production Company: Olga Film
World Sales: Constantin Film AG
World Sales Phone: 49 (0) 89 44 44 60 – 0
World Sales Email: eu-dsgvo-team@constantin.film
Doris Dörrie is one of the most important and successful female filmmakers. She has been writing and directing successful motion pictures for more than 30 years. Doris Dörrie has been Professor of Creative Writing at the Munich University of Television and Film since 1997. In 2019, Doris Dörrie was invited to join the famous Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a screenwriter. She was appointed as a Jury in Cannes in 1999. Her films have also been shown at, internationally renowned film festivals in Toronto Rotterdam, Tallinn, Tokyo, Palm Springs, Montreal.
Ten years after the death of his parents Rudi and Trudi, youngest son Karl’s life is in ruins: he has lost his job; lives separated from his wife and child and can only appease his dark, inner demons with large amounts of alcohol. Karl no longer knows who he is. Suddenly, Yu pops up like a hallucination, amazing and shrouded in mystery. Yu appears like a sign from a past world and turns Karl’s life upside down. Karl very reluctantly accompanies her to his parents’ empty house in Bavaria – the memories of his parents and his own, difficult childhood are all too vivid. Why won’t Karl’s dead parents let him go? What demons are pursuing him? Yu’s Japanese origins mean she has experience with demons and ghosts. Supported by Yu, with whom he falls more and more in love, Karl fights against himself and his past – in order to do this he nearly dies and has to travel to Japan to find out if he is already a ghost himself or still alive after all.
Picture Credits: 2018 Constantin Film VerleihGmbH_MathiasBothor
