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Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents

Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents

2013 93min DE

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.

director: Peter Liechti

external: IMDb

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Credits

Peter Liechti

Peter Liechti

Director

Florian Eidenbenz

Florian Eidenbenz

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Eva Ruch

Eva Ruch

Costume Design

Florian Eidenbenz

Florian Eidenbenz

Sound Editor

Robert Meyer

Robert Meyer

Lighting Design

Tania Stöcklin

Tania Stöcklin

Editor

Peter Liechti

Peter Liechti

Writer

Peter Liechti

Peter Liechti

Director of Photography

Peter Liechti

Peter Liechti

Producer

Peter Guyer

Peter Guyer

Director of Photography

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