CONCRETE LOVE

by Maurizius Staerkle Drux
  • LICHTBLICK FILM
  • LICHTBLICK FILM
  • LICHTBLICK FILM

    Synopsis

    Gottfried Böhm is widely regarded as Germany’s preeminent architect. The son of a master builder of churches, he is the patriarch of a modern architecture dynasty to which his sons Stephan, Peter und Paul now belong. By realizing prominent buildings of their own, the Böhm fils have managed to step out of the shadow of their famous father. But the crisis in the German construction industry, among other things, has stoked the fires of competition between the brothers. Gottfried, now 94, still contributes daily to current projects. With the death of his wife Elisabeth, also an architect and a source of inspiration for all Böhms, the family loses its emotional lodestone. The film paints an intimate and pointed portrait of the complexity and inseparability of life, love, faith, art and architecture.

    Festivals

    DOK Leipzig – Docmentary Film Prize of the Goethe-Institut
    shortlisted for German Film Award
    Slamdance Salt Lake City
    Film Fest Max-Ophuels-Preis Saarbruuecken
    LOLA@Berlinale
    Berlin&Beyond