Julia's Disappearance

Story

Synopsis

A comedy about aging, youth and other eternal truths. Of all days, precisely on her fiftieth birthday, Julia has to experience that age makes you invisible. Frustrated, she goes shopping and makes an acquaintance, spontaneously deciding to spend the evening with this stranger, rather than with the guests of her own birthday party. They wait for her in a restaurant, all dressed up and groomed, lively debating the years that have passed. The truths and wisdom of Julia's closest friends on aging and growing old are drowned increasingly in sufficient quantities of alcohol. In the mean time, on her eightieth birthday, Leonie, sulking over the loss of youth, is rebelling against her daughter, the senior citizen's home, conventions, and old age in general - and joyfully sabotaging the party in her honor.

Director

Christoph Schaub

Writers

Martin Suter

Language

German

Country

Switzerland

Release date

8 October 2009

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Corinna Harfouch

  Giulia

• 

  Bruno Ganz

  John

• 

  Stefan Kurt

  Stefan

• 

  Sunnyi Melles

  Alessia

• 

  Teresa Harder

  Lena

• 

  André Jung

  Lorenz

• 

  Max Herbrechter

  Valentin

• Susanne-Marie Wrage

  Cornelia

• 

  Renate Becker

  Lili

• Jennifer Schmid

  Monisha

• 

  Karin Pfammatter

  Frau Schneider

• Matthias Schoch

  Kurier