Source: Peripher, DIF Ursina Lardi, Andreas Patton Passing Summer   An attempt to observe life from the outside - to gain distance, to not interfere, to just observe. Two young women sitting in a café on a summer day, a family arriving at the airport, an older woman sitting alone in a train, adult children standing in front of the hospital where their father is dying. Situations found everyday, a thousand times over. But what happens when you try to depict this normality? Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH Deutschland 2000/2001, Spielfilm Director Angela Schanelec Screenplay Angela Schanelec Director of photography Reinhold Vorschneider Cast Ursina Lardi Valerie Andreas Patton Thomas Anne Tismer Marie Wolfgang Michael Maries Mann Sophie Aigner Maria Nina Weniger Sophie Devid Striesow Valeries Bruder Louis Schanelec Louis Hans-Michael Rehberg Valeries Professor Rüdiger Vogler Marias Vater Production company Schramm Film Koerner & Weber (Berlin) Producer Florian Koerner von Gustorf; Michael Weber; Jörg Schneider