Im Kreise der Lieben
The Terrible Threesome
Grandmother, mother, granddaughter – the Grund family is nothing if not high functioning. Maria, the youngest, travels the land relieving willing men of their money with a marriage con. Her mother Getrud makes sure that Maria looks perfect and contributes an emotional note to their family life, while senior citizen Emmi manages their finances in the kitchen. When the stress gets too much for the trio, they relax with an evening game of rummy. But then Maria meets a fellow con artist who is out for revenge, and Getrud falls in love with one of the marks Maria has fleeced and invites him into the household, putting the survival of their testosterone-free family idyll at serious risk …
Hermine Huntgeburth placed the focus of her black comedy on a woman who uses self-assured roleplaying to fulfil the desires men project onto her. Those imputed feelings are in stark contrast to the entirely "unfeminine" behaviour the women display when they need to defend the autonomy of their women's alliance – if necessary with a rolling pin or a frying pan. An antic film that uses calculated exaggeration to make its point.
Source: 69. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Maria Grund
- Gertrud Grund
- Emmi Grund
- Werner Hennes
- Kurt Winter
- Herr Muster
- Hausbesitzer
- Renate
- Medium
- Bayer
Production company
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Script supervisor
Screenplay
Co-author
Director of photography
Assistant camera
Clapper loader
Still photography
Lighting design
Key grip
Set design
Property master
Stand-by props
Construction manager
Make-up artist
Costume design
Editing
Assistant editor
Sound
Audio mixing
Music
Cast
- Maria Grund
- Gertrud Grund
- Emmi Grund
- Werner Hennes
- Kurt Winter
- Herr Muster
- Hausbesitzer
- Renate
- Medium
- Bayer
- Mann im Buchladen
- Makler
- Küster
- Arzt
- Priester
- 1. Mann in der Kneipe
- 2. Mann in der Kneipe
- Barkeeper
- Frau mit Hund
- Synchronsprecher
Production company
Producer (TV)
Unit production manager
Location manager
Production manager
Original distributor
Shoot
- 1990: Hamburg, Paderborn (?) [Herbst]
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 09.12.1991, 67017, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): Oktober 1991, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 29.11.1993, Nord 3
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Im Kreise der Lieben
- Weiterer Titel The Terrible Threesome
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 09.12.1991, 67017, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): Oktober 1991, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 29.11.1993, Nord 3
Awards
- Filmband in Gold, Beste Nachwuchsregie