Head Full of Honey (2014)

Before Tilda's parents can put her beloved grandfather in an old people's home due to his progressing Alzheimer disease, she takes him on one last adventure that subliminally threatens to tear her family apart.

Directors:

Til Schweiger, Lars Gmehling (co-director)

Writers:

Hilly Martinek (screenplay), Til Schweiger (screenplay)

Stars:

Pasquale Aleardi, Marco Boriero, Alexa Brunner

7 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Pasquale Aleardi	...	Carabinieri Straßensperre
Marco Boriero	...	Ray-Ban Carabinieri
Alexa Brunner	...	Frau am Bahnsteig 2
Belinda Busch	...	Freundin Sarah
Claudio Caiolo	...	Rezeptionist
Dana Cebulla	...	Dame Zugabteil
Christoph Domanski	...	Unfallzeuge 1
Sahin Eryilmaz	...	Möbelpacker
Thomas Fehlen	...	Zugführer
Samuel Finzi	...	Kellner Venedig
Liane Forestieri	...	Rezeptionistin
Michele Grassi	...	Carabinieri Bahnhof
Jeanette Hain	...	Sarah Rosenbach
Dieter Hallervorden	...	Amandus Rosenbach
Ray Collins' Hot-Club	...	Partyband (as Ray Collins' Hot Club)

Storyline

Its a story about a special love, the love between TILDA and her grandfather AMANDUS. Amandus has Alzheimers. He always was the bon vivant, the humorous and beloved head of the family now he starts acting like a child. Only the ten year old Tilda can deal with him and his disease she looks at it with the eyes of a child and a kind of humour and sensitivity that makes it easier to approach Amandus when he is lost in his new own world. This special connection approaches the disease in a humorous but emotional way, without forgetting about its tragedy.

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Plot Keywords:

old age | senility | part of the body in title | food in title | overalls | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Family

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Germany

Language:

German Italian

Release Date:

25 December 2014 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Head Full of Honey

Filming Locations:

Venice, Veneto, Italy

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$78,127,384

Company Credits

Production Co:

Barefoot Films, Warner Bros., Seven Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

139 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Dieter Hallervorden is known in Germany for more comedic movies. This is one of the few movies, where he engages into a dramatic movie.

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Connections

Remade as Head Full of Honey (2018)

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Soundtracks

Life in Color
Performed by OneRepublic

User Reviews

Not strong enough

The best about this German movie who was one of the biggest hits in 2014 are some of the performances. I always thought Hallervorden to be a good actor even in his often unfunny 70ies and 80ies comedies. Jeanette Hain is also good as the antagonist. Schweiger himself has made worse and better movies in the past. In the last years he became notorious for putting his friends and kids in his movies. Same here, but his daughter Emma is at least not as annoying as her elder sister Luna who also gets shoehorned in many of his movies. First off, the movie about a little girl and her grandfather, who has got Alzheimer disease, is just a bit too long. I think this movie could easily be 30 minutes shorter. In my opinion the movie shows quite good what Alzheimer does despite it is not in all details realistic. But Schweiger again ruins the portrayal of his main character by his crude style of humour. Here, for example, the main character Armandus is fond of grabbing tits or pees in the fridge. So you get wrongly the impression this may have not been a good man before he became demented.