"Free according to plan"

This award-winning, wonderfully tragicomic German film from 2007 shows how fragile the structure of a family and the search for happiness can be. Well-known leading actors such as Dagmar Manzel, Christine Schorn, Corinna Harfouch and Kirsten Block perfectly stage the chaos of the planned birthday party for the alcoholic mother, when the three sisters get together in their home village and the black sheep of the family promptly brings unrest into the preparations. When the divorced father shows up with his very young new flame, everything seems to be over...