Dear Kurt: Film adaptation of Sarah Kuttner’s novel about a patchwork family who lose their child.
Film plot and background
Film adaptation of Sarah Kuttner’s novel about a patchwork family who lose their child.
Lena (Franziska Machens), her new boyfriend Kurt (Til Schweiger) and his son Kurt (Levi Wolter) venture a new start in Berlin’s Speckgürtel. For the boy, it’s not all that easy at first: two children’s rooms, two families, different rules. But the patchwork family comes to terms with their new life quite well, until the day that changes everything.
Little Kurt dies and plunges the family, especially his father, into deep mourning. Lena doesn’t know how to deal with the situation, she wants to be there for him and support him, but the death of her stepson has also hit her hard. What is to happen next?
The trailer shows the patchwork family living together and coping with grief:
“Dear Kurt” – background, cast and cinema release
After numerous comedy titles, Til Schweiger devotes himself to a more serious subject again with “Lieber Kurt”. He will be available as a performer as well as director and co-writer (together with Vanessa Walder) for the drama.
The story of the film is based on Sarah Kuttner’s novel “Kurt”, for the author it is the second book adaptation after “Mängelexemplar”. While she wrote the screenplay for the first film herself, she is keeping a low profile this time and is relying on the author team Schweiger and Walder. She has already shared her enthusiasm via Instagram, because the script reading even moved her to tears. Like many other productions, the theatrical release had to be postponed due to the corona pandemic. “Dear Kurt” will start in German cinemas on 15 September 2022.
In addition to Schweiger, the film will also feature Jasmin Gerat (“God, you can be an asshole”), Franziska Machens (“Paradise”), Peter Simonischek (“Toni Erdmann”), Heiner Lauterbach (“It’s for your own good”) and Levi Wolter in his debut role as little Kurt.
