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6:00 PM-8:00 PM, BST
When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before
Film screening | Join us to watch this film (original German title: Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war) with English subtitles on the big screen in our hall. Free entry!
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Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Glasgow
- Language German with English subtitles
- Price Free Admission! Bookings via Eventbrite.
- Part of series: German cinema at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow 2025
Film adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Joachim Meyerhoff from 2013.
Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family.
"Actually, all he has to do is just concentrate exactly, then you don’t die." – "I do it all the time, too. Otherwise, I’d already be dead a thousand times over."
The household Josse grows up in hardly corresponds to the typical notions of family: his father is the director of a psychiatric clinic, on the premises of which their family home is located. Josse spends his childhood and adolescence with two brothers and liberal parents whose bourgeois life is threatening to break up their marriage. Again and again, Josse is plagued by fits of anger and sadness. He finds a sympathetic ear, consolation and the feeling of not being an oddball primarily among the psychiatric patients. The adaptation of Joachim Meyerhoff’s bestseller is carried by a well-known cast and tells a tragicomic tale about growing up in the 1970s. A soulful celebration of life in all its absurdity and transience.
Germany/Belgium 2021/2022 | Director: Sonja Heiss | 116 min | Feature Film | FSK (Germany), recommended from age 12 | Cast: Arsseni Bultmann, Laura Tonke, Devid Striesow, Pola Geiger, Camille Moltzen, et. al. | German with English subtitles.
Reprinted with kind permission of: Filmportal.de / Deutsches Filminstitut.
Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany's largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow - different. For Joachim, the director's youngest son, the patients are like family.
"Actually, all he has to do is just concentrate exactly, then you don’t die." – "I do it all the time, too. Otherwise, I’d already be dead a thousand times over."
The household Josse grows up in hardly corresponds to the typical notions of family: his father is the director of a psychiatric clinic, on the premises of which their family home is located. Josse spends his childhood and adolescence with two brothers and liberal parents whose bourgeois life is threatening to break up their marriage. Again and again, Josse is plagued by fits of anger and sadness. He finds a sympathetic ear, consolation and the feeling of not being an oddball primarily among the psychiatric patients. The adaptation of Joachim Meyerhoff’s bestseller is carried by a well-known cast and tells a tragicomic tale about growing up in the 1970s. A soulful celebration of life in all its absurdity and transience.
Germany/Belgium 2021/2022 | Director: Sonja Heiss | 116 min | Feature Film | FSK (Germany), recommended from age 12 | Cast: Arsseni Bultmann, Laura Tonke, Devid Striesow, Pola Geiger, Camille Moltzen, et. al. | German with English subtitles.
Reprinted with kind permission of: Filmportal.de / Deutsches Filminstitut.
Location
Goethe-Institut Glasgow
3 Park Circus
Glasgow G3 6AX
United Kingdom
3 Park Circus
Glasgow G3 6AX
United Kingdom