Overview
- The film, celebrated with standing ovations and a Panorama audience runner‑up nod at the Berlinale, now opens in cinemas.
- The drama adapts Barbara Pachl‑Eberhart’s bestseller about the 2008 crash that killed her husband Heli and children Fini and Thimo.
- It portrays coping through Barbara’s clown persona, including a colorful funeral with performing clowns and scenes of hospital work with the Rote Nasen group.
- Adrian Goiginger directs from Senad Halilbašić’s screenplay, with Valerie Pachner as Barbara and Robert Stadlober as Heli, alongside Hanno Koffler and Stefanie Reinsperger.
- Critics praise the film as a life‑affirming, original study of mourning and one of the few serious treatments of clowning on screen.