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A middle-aged man and an old woman walk through a housing estate.
Copyright: DOK.fest München

New York Times, People Magazine, Spiegel: the renowned photographer Michael Appelt has worked for all the big magazines. Now he is moving into his former childhood bedroom to care for his mother with her worsening dementia – or for her to care for him: After the trauma of a near death experience, he suffers from anxiety and depression himself. A loving and sensitively filmed mother-son story.

This event is in the past.

New York Times, People Magazine, Spiegel: the renowned photographer Michael Appelt has worked for all the big magazines. Now he is moving into his former childhood bedroom to care for his mother with her worsening dementia – or for her to care for him: After the trauma of a near death experience, he suffers from anxiety and depression himself. A loving and sensitively filmed mother-son story.

Austria 2023, 94 minutes, original language with English subtitles; directed by Rainer Riedler

Further information at www.dokfest-muenchen.de/films/die-guten-jahre