The hit film follows a married pair of golden agers whose pent-up marital issues bubble to the floor throughout a cruise within the Mediterranean.
Music Field Movies has taken U.S. rights to Barbara Kulcsar’s hit Swiss tragicomedy Golden Years, signing a cope with gross sales outfit Beta Cinema that can see Music Field launch the movie stateside later this 12 months.
Golden Years stars veteran Swiss actors Esther Gemsch and Stefan Kurt as Alice and Peter, a recently-retired couple able to take pleasure in their life as pensioners with a cruise journey via the Mediterranean. However as soon as on the cruise, their pent-up marital issues bubble to the floor and the pair find yourself happening separate journeys of self-discovery. Peter turns into a well being fanatic, spending increasingly more time together with his finest good friend Heinz (Ueli Jäggi). In the meantime, Alice, disenchanted and harm, decides, throughout a shore tour in Marseille, to not return to the ship.
Kulcsar (The Two of Us, Blush) directed Golden Years from a script by Petra Volpe (Heidi, The Divine Order), who took inspiration from her personal dad and mom’ retirement.
“I wrote a humorous and tender story a few couple’s second coming of age at 65,” says Volpe, “Golden Years celebrates that it’s by no means too late to alter your life.”
Zodiac Photos produced Golden Years in co-produktion with Claussen+Putz, ZDF, SRF, SRG SSR and Blue+. Golden Years beforehand turned the movie competition circuit, display on the Palm Springs, Victoria, Zurich and Hamburg competition.
“Barbara Kulcsar’s pleasant comedy reminds us that the hunt for happiness and private development is a lifelong journey,” mentioned Music Field Movies’ Brian Andreotti. “These characters are on a voyage to reinvent themselves and redefine their relationships, and their ultimate locations will shock audiences.”