The Final Journey

2017

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When Eduard’s wife dies, his daughter wants to put him in a home. Instead he gets on the train and embarks on an odyssey that doesn’t end until he gets to Russia. Eduard is looking for the woman he fell in love with while serving alongside the Cossacks, many of whom fought with the Wehrmacht against the Red Army. Eduard has never talked about his wartime experiences, but they’ve thrown a long shadow over the family. He has a terrible relationship with his daughter. And his granddaughter, Adele, can’t stand the cantankerous old man. But when Adele’s mother tells her to go to the station in Berlin and get Eduard off the train, she reluctantly agrees: he’s over 90, belongs in a home and there’s a war about to break out in eastern Ukraine. Eduard isn’t going to be stopped however, so Adele is forced to jump on the train to Kiev and join him on his search. The journey forces Eduard to confront his true feelings. And his past. And Adele slowly begins to realize that Eduard’s war, which she always thought had nothing to do with her, is the key to who she is.

LANGUAGE: GERMAN
SCRIPT/DIRECTOR: NICK BAKER-MONTEYS
IN COPRODUCTION WITH: TOBIS FILM
NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION: TOBIS FILM
WORLD SALES: GLOBAL SCREEN
CAST: JÜRGEN PROCHNOW, PETRA SCHMIDT-SCHALLER, SUZANNE VON BORSODY, TAMBET TUISK
RELEASE: AUTUMN 2017 IN CINEMA

AWARDS:
AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE PREMIERE 2018 (BERLIN & BEYOND FILM FESTIVAL, SAN FRANCISCO)
AUDIENCE AWARD – PRIX DU PUBLIC 2018 (MAMERS EN MARS FESTIVAL, FRANCE)