DEINE SCHÖNE HÖLLE / YOUR BEAUTIFUL HELL

YOUR BEAUTIFUL HELL

DEINE SCHÖNE HÖLLE / YOUR BEAUTIFUL HELL

Director: Detlef Bothe
Feature film | Germany | 2023
117 min | Dolby 5.1

57th Hof International Film Festival
2023

Yann, photographer and recently divorced, meets Alicia in a bar. Attracted at first sight, they soon are engaged in an affair. When Alicia leaves her husband and moves in with Yann, power struggles ensue. Thilda, Yann’s 12-year-old daughter who lives with his ex-wife, instinctively blocks Alicia, who lives out her mood swings in borderline mode. Yann tries to escape the situation by taking up with with Tabea, while Alicia quits her job and resumes an abandoned psychology degree. But she parties all day with drugs and is also involved in other affairs.

As Yann’s relationship with Tabea grows closer, he tries to break away from Alicia, who in return tells him she is pregnant. Their fights come to a head. Psychological abysses without a filter. Both gradually steer into depression. Until the moment when they surrender to each other in exhaustion…

With Anno Köhler, Ariella Hirshfeld, Detlef Bothe, Fabienne Lopes, George Lenz, Johannah Freimuth, Mila Stephan, Nina Brandhoff, Sascha Maaz, Suzanne Landsfried, Wolfgang Hammerschmid

Cinematography Holger Fleig (Bvk), Christoph Harrer, Editing Detlef Bothe, Costume design Teresa Grosser, Production Detlef Bothe