Movie info
Comedy 35mm 106min
Directed by SANDRA NETTELBECK
Screenplay SANDRA NETTELBECK
Director of Photography MICHAEL BERTL
Production Designer BOUBOU SIGRID SCHROEDER
Editing MONA BRAEUER
Costume Designer BETTINA HELMI
Make Up KATHARINA ERFMANN / MARTINE FELBER-CORDEY
Produced by KARL BAUMGARTNER / CHRISTOPH FRIEDEL / HEINZ STUSSAK / MICHAEL SEEBER / MARCEL HOEHN / ULRICH LIMMER / RAINER KoeLMEL / CARLO DEGLI ESPOSTI
Cast MARTINA GEDECK SERGIO CASTELLITTO MAXIME FOERSTE SIBYLLE CANONINCA IDIL UENER OLIVER BROUMIS ANTONIO WANNEK AUGUST ZIRNER ULRICH THOMSEN
Story
Martha is the brilliant, obsessive, but charming head chef at a French restaurant in Hamburg, and despite creating daily culinary masterpieces for her guests, her days are rather monotonous. The introverted Martha does not have a life outside the restaurant. Everything changes after her sister dies in an accident and she has to take in her 8 year-old, severely traumatized niece, Lina. Only her new, Italian sous-chef Mario, who changes from rival to affectionate friend, finally brings light (and pasta) into the two outsiders’ lives. Just as a tentative romance starts to blossom between Martha and Mario, Lina’s father turns up to take his daughter back to Italy with him. Martha has to make a decision …