Slow moving, beautiful and touching. for use of details. When he gets home, he goes to sleep.

Distracted by sizzling sexual chemistry with his father's young nurse Anka (Julia Koschitz), Jonathan only grasps the truth long after most movie viewers will have figured it out: Burghard is gay, but has kept his sexuality hidden from his son for decades.

I only wish there was more extrapolation concerning the aunt. The film is named after the "main character", yet he is the least thought out character of them all and therefore the least interesting.

The lines were the biggest problem - both the script in itself as well as the delivery of it.

User Ratings Cast: Jannis Niewohner, André M. Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher, Barbara Auer If this is aimed at a gay audience (and it was in the Teddy section at the Berlin Film Festival) then the audience going to see the film should be willing to confront the visibility of the father, the true subject, rather than the wonder of the actor who played Jonathan (unremarkable in the acting department) on the poster.

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While Lewandowski's script leans too heavily on implausible sulks and communication breakdowns, he is clearly deploying glossy soap tactics to sex up what might otherwise have been a relentlessly bleak viewing experience. But it seemed to me that Jonathan moved at a snail's pace and about a third of it could have been cut. Directed by Bill Oliver. It also …

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German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools. It also reverses the generational conflict that drives more traditional gay-themed plotlines, a neat twist which does not fully excuse a few lurches into overcooked melodrama. Terminal illness with a side order of homoerotic hotness. Director-screenwriter:  Piotr J. Lewandowski Even his vigorous hetero passion, with the young and good-looking female nurse looking after his cancer suffering father, is dominated by his buttocks!! A decent film though. The countryside was gorgeous and well-shot.

This amounts to a 90 minute salute to extreme homophobia and self-hatred. For the simple story.

But are the sellers afraid we are not mature enough to see real elderly people in their ageing pain? There are a few - VERY few - moments of grace when the father's long-lost lover shows up about two thirds of the way into the film, but even then the family members go to extremes to show their hatred for him (the sister fires a shotgun in the air within a minute after he shows up on her property). It was a bit slow, but it was touching. A close second is his aunt, a psycho-Christian who won't go near her dying brother, who is in the last weeks of his life and in great physical and psychological pain (a neat combination of advanced cancer and shame). However, over multiple meetings, in which Jonathan tells Elena about himself and John, Jonathan and Elena begin dating. Life, as exemplified by their looks, was to put a balm over the real wound of human suffering that the film was trying to show.

Jonathan: Die Movie (2016) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Jonathan is almost certainly the most soft-porn movie ever made about terminal cancer.

Set in an overtly contemporary but oddly timeless version of rural Germany, the pic has a fairy-tale simplicity in places. (as André M. Hennicke). Far from it! This movie is a mosaic about family, forgiveness, and love and if there's one thing you will learn it's that family can overcome everything and it's never too late to make things right and find love even on the bed of death plus the end is very gratifying and warming so prepare the tissues. Production company: Kordes & Kordes Film GmbH Go watch the utterly glorious "God's Own Country" (the best gay film in decades) or some of the wonderful gay films coming from Brazil, Portugal, and Spain. With Ansel Elgort, Suki Waterhouse, Patricia Clarkson, Matt Bomer. This movie took me there.

Metacritic Reviews. It was a bit slow, but it was touching. I don't want to be too critical because this is a foreign language film in a foreign language I'm not that versed in.

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Details. John, furious, disappears and stops making videos for Jonathan. Was this review helpful to you? It is the first full feature film work by Polish short film and television series director Piotr J. Lewandowski.

My mother also suicided with pills, my father also lied to me about this, I lived on a farm and I am in the actual age of the main protagonist.

The countryside was gorgeous and well-shot. I read the other reviews before watching the film. Jonas is planning a trip through the little known area of the Uckermark in preparation for a photography project.

There, he meets Aron and they both explore their identities.

Frequently Asked Questions. Even so, Lewandowski has made an impressively mature first feature which will earn plenty more festival invitations following its Berlinale premiere last month, with obvious but not exclusive appeal to fests with dedicated LGBT programs.

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Before he switches focus midway through from a son's rites-of-passage story to a father's last-rites story, Lewandowski initially tries to wrong-foot us with hints that Jonathan himself may be gay. and the return of a familiar stranger.and the choice as foundation of own life. Add the first question. Jonathan leaves the office every day at noon. The Hollywood Reporter, LLC is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC.

The real subject is having terminal skin cancer, and the gay element: a former lover who looked as ordinary as him. A harrowing sex scene on a hospital death bed demonstrates that Lewandowski can handle raw humanity as well as pastoral splendor.

Jonathan ( 2016) Photos. "Jonathan" is a German German-language movie from 2016 that runs for 100 minutes. It is a young man's attempt to know the story about his parents, one of whom he has never known, and the other who is now dying.

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A day later she ... See full summary ». Every morning he wakes up and there is a breakfast prepared for him along with a video telling him about the second part of his day. He invites his best friend, Phillip, to come along. Drama. He certainly exploits Niewohner's chiseled torso and killer cheekbones for maximum homoerotic hotness, never missing a chance to have him pull off his tight T-shirt, go skinny-dipping in sun-dappled woodland glades or have al fresco sex on the back of a pick-up truck. FACEBOOK The cast includes several actors that German film buffs will immediately recognize, at least the faces, maybe even the names, like Niewöhner (playing the title character), Hennicke, Koschitz, Auer and Sarbacher.

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Summer in Berlin. . Baby-faced blond beauty Jannis Niewohner stars as Jonathan, an emotionally volatile young man living on a remote farm in rural Germany, where he cares for his sick father Burghard (Downfall veteran Andre Hennicke). Awards by 4:45 PM PST 3/7/2016 The naive young hero's angry tantrum on finally discovering his father's sexuality certainly feels a little too engineered, more dramatically convenient than emotionally true. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Music: Lenny Mockridge