Running time: 180 mins
Dark Comedy, Drama
Family life in all its disorderly, dysfunctional and messily comedic complexity comes under the microscope in this ambitious and affecting epic. Glasner explores the parallel lives of four members of the Lunies clan, weaving a rich and humane tapestry around a combative quartet whose all-too-recognisable failings should strike a chord with every audience member. Balancing wildly comic episodes with moments of heart-wrenching emotion, Sterben is a must-see dark comedy that brilliantly constitutes world cinema at its finest.