The Bloom of Yesterday

The Bloom of Yesterday

124 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Jan. 12, 2017

An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.

The Bloom of Yesterday

124 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Jan. 12, 2017

The Bloom of Yesterday
An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Dor Film Production Company, ARD, Dor Film-West Produktionsgesellschaft, Four Minutes Filmproduktion
Original title Die Blumen von Gestern
Directors Chris Kraus
Writers Chris Kraus

Cast

Lars Eidinger

as Totila Blumen

Adèle Haenel

as Zazie Lindeau

Hannah Herzsprung

as Hannah Blumen

Jan Josef Liefers

as Balthasar Thomas

Rolf Hoppe

as Professor Norkus

Bibiane Zeller

as Lisbeth Blumen

Eva Löbau

as Anita Koldewey

Hans-Jochen Wagner

as Mauersperger

Sigrid Marquardt

as Tara Rubinstein

Djenabuh Jalloh

as Sarah Blumen

Cornelius Schwalm

as Bächle

Irene Rindje

as Charlene Morgenrot

Heidi Baratta

as Magda

Rüdiger Klink

as Zwangsversteigerer

Gerdy Zint

as Sieghart Blumen

Elda Sorra

as Assistentin Molowsky

Kim Girschner

as Konferenzteilnehmer

Rebecca Hildebrandt

as Stewardess

Martin Müller

as Anführer der Heidelbergburschenschaft

Frank W. Rima

as Dinerkunde/Taxifahrer

Bernd Würch

as Geschäftsmann