Golden Years

Golden Years

91 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance, Mystery | Nov. 17, 2022

Alice and Peter are celebrating their retirement and are looking forward to a new phase in their lives. Then Alice finds out that her best friend Magalie, who dies completely unexpectedly, had been having an affair in France for 15 years. The confrontation with the finiteness of life plunges Peter into an existential crisis: to the great chagrin of Alice, who is a bon vivant, he becomes a total health fanatic. When Peter invites Heinz, Magalie's widowed husband, to join him on a cruise, which Alice hopes will breathe new life into a marriage, their harmonious retirement is over.

Golden Years

91 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance, Mystery | Nov. 17, 2022

Golden Years
Alice and Peter are celebrating their retirement and are looking forward to a new phase in their lives. Then Alice finds out that her best friend Magalie, who dies completely unexpectedly, had been having an affair in France for 15 years. The confrontation with the finiteness of life plunges Peter into an existential crisis: to the great chagrin of Alice, who is a bon vivant, he becomes a total health fanatic. When Peter invites Heinz, Magalie's widowed husband, to join him on a cruise, which Alice hopes will breathe new life into a marriage, their harmonious retirement is over.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers ZDF, Zodiac Pictures, SRG SSR, SRF, Claussen+Putz Filmproduktion, Frontal21, blue+ Blue Entertainment AG, Frontal
Original title Die goldenen Jahre
Directors Barbara Kulcsar
Writers Petra Biondina Volpe

Cast

Esther Gemsch

as Alice Waldvogel

Stefan Kurt

as Peter Waldvogel

Gundi Ellert

as Michi

Ueli Jäggi

as Heinz

Isabelle Barth

as Susanne

Martin Vischer

as Julian

André Jung

as Josef

Monica Budde

as Claude

Teresa Harder

as Ingrid