THE COMPONENTS OF LOVE
FEATURE
When Sophie and Georg meet and start to fall in love, she is pregnant from her ex-boyfriend who has left her. Georg naturally grows into the role of a father to the newborn child Jakob. The composed family has to deal with the usual issues of modern parenthood: Who is allowed to work, who takes care of the kid? How much freedom is possible, how much sacrifice must be made? And is there room for passion in the midst of all this? A few years later, Georg and Sophie are separated. Jakob is six years old and his parents are desperately fighting over his custody. Until Sophie’s new boyfriend starts to mediate between the parties.
Director - Miriam Bliese
Miriam Bliese was born in Wuppertal but grew up in Berlin and Paris. Her parents are the actor Eleonore Weisgerber and Joachim Bliese. Her younger brother John Bliese is a cultural scientist and social worker, who is also in the Berlin scene hip-hop is active, where he under the stage name Joe Madog occurs.
After internships and assistant directors at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and the Sophiensælen Berlin, Miriam Bliese studied German, philosophy, and musicology at the Free University of Berlin from 2000. At the same time, she worked as a freelance writer for the TV broadcaster Arte.
Director’S Statement
In the beginning, there was a desire to make a film that is set entirely at a simple front door. To accept the challenge of having to find ever new situations in this same setting, without the film getting boring or losing credibility. I wanted to put the focus on a place that we usually just casually pass through. to take up phrases and actions that are usually marginalized and move them to the center of the action. All this because I believe that the casual moments of life tell us much more about reality than the so-called “big events”.
This happened in combination with the urge to conclude with a major theme of my life: separations. I think that it is one of the great characteristics of our time that we do not have the ability to stay together even though it is what we most desperately wish for. I am surrounded by couples with children who are desperately trying to remain lovers and who fail miserably to do so. My own parents did not succeed either. And I myself also live in a complicated patchwork family. why is that? I think the answer is in the little details. in all the little things and banalities that make up the everyday life of love and so few match our noble expectations.
SPECIFICATIONS
Project Title (Original Language): Die Einzelteile Der Liebe
Project Type:
Feature
Genres:
Drama, Comedy, Music
Runtime:
1 hour 37 minutes
Country of Origin:
Germany
Language:
German
Aspect Ratio:
1.66
Film Color:
Color
First-time Filmmaker:
Yes
Student Project:
No
CREDITS
Miriam Bliese
Writer
Miriam Bliese
Director
Clemens Köstlin
Producer
Daughterland, Mentre Dormi
Birte Schnöink
Key Cast
“Sophie”
Ole Lagerpusch
Key Cast
“Georg”