Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents

Name: Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents
Genre: Documentary
Released: 13 Feb 2013
Rating: 6.30

The father tends his large garden with the utmost precision. The mother irons shirts and regrets that the father never wears T-shirts. The father likes order, always knows best, and has everything under control. The mother prays and talks of her loneliness. The two are fundamentally different, have opposing views and interests, and have been married for 62 years. Closely knit yet poles apart: this is the ambivalent standpoint from which Peter Liechti turns his lens on his elderly parents and the story of their marriage. Alongside conversations that shift from slapstick to insanity and observations of daily life in his parents’ cramped, lower middle class apartment, a puppet theatre is also established as a second location. This forms the stage for scenes between mother and father to be reenacted by rabbit puppets; as a puppet, the son can also react in explosive fashion.

Year: 2013

Genre: Documentary

Studio: Peter Liechti Filmproduktion, SRF

Director: Peter Liechti

Cast:

Crew: Peter Liechti (Director), Florian Eidenbenz (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Eva Ruch (Costume Design), Florian Eidenbenz (Sound Editor), Robert Meyer (Lighting Design), Tania Stöcklin (Editor)

Runtime: 93 minutes

Release: Feb 13, 2013

IMDb: 6.30/10 by 3 users

Popularity: 1

Country: Switzerland

Language: Deutsch, English