DYING (2024)
Lilith Stangenberg as Ellen Lunies
Corinna Harfouch as Lissy Lunies
Robert Gwisdek as Bernard
Ronald Zehrfeld as Sebastian Vogel
Saskia Rosendahl as Ronja
Anna Bederke as Liv
Saerom Park as Mi-Do
Hans-Uwe Bauer as Gerd Lunies
Dying (German: Sterben) is 2024 German drama film
about a married couple on the brink of death and their two children who are too
concerned with their own troubles to get involved.
Plot
DYING follows the very individual members of the Lunies family, who haven't been a family for a long time. Lissy (Corinna Harfouch) is quietly happy about her demented husband Gerd (Hans-Uwe Bauer) slowly wasting away in a home. But her new freedom is short-lived: Diabetes, cancer and kidney failure mean that she doesn't have much time left either. Son Tom (Lars Eidinger), a conductor in his early 40s, is working on a composition called 'Dying', while at the same time being made the surrogate father of his ex-girlfriend's child. And Tom's sister Ellen (Lilith Stangenberg) starts an affair with the married Sebastian (Ronald Zehrfeld), with whom she shares a love for alcohol. As Death finally turns up on the doorstep, the estranged family members finally meet again.