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Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents (2013)
Directed by Peter Liechti
Documentary · 1h 33m
The father tends his large garden with the utmost precision. The mother irons shirts and regrets that the father never wears T-shirts. The father likes order, always knows best, and has everything under control. The mother prays and talks of her loneliness. The two are fundamentally different, have opposing views and interests, and have been married for 62 years. Closely knit yet poles apart: this is the ambivalent standpoint from which Peter Liechti turns his lens on his elderly parents and the story of their marriage. Alongside conversations that shift from slapstick to insanity and observations of daily life in his parents’ cramped, lower middle class apartment, a puppet theatre is also established as a second location. This forms the stage for scenes between mother and father to be reenacted by rabbit puppets; as a puppet, the son can also react in explosive fashion.
Crew
- Director
- Peter Liechti
- Writer
- Peter Liechti
- Director of Photography
- Peter Liechti, Peter Guyer
- Editor
- Tania Stöcklin
- Producer
- Peter Liechti
Details
- Original title
- Vaters Garten - Die Liebe meiner Eltern
- Release date
- 2013-02-13
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German, English
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Production
- Peter Liechti Filmproduktion, SRF