Attention, gentlemen — you may keep reading too, because "Liebesfilm" is by no means a romance-drenched chick flick! Rather, the film coolly negotiates the hip togetherness of a couple who enjoy life between the Kreuzberg neighbourhood and the pursuit of self-fulfilment. Things get interesting when Ira wants more than just to live in the moment. Lenz shies away from the future and family. He runs off and resumes his old life: sleeping in, partying, and sitting in the shared flat's kitchen smoking with his friend Kenn. But Lenz misses Ira. And when he happens to run into her, they become a couple again after a wild night of love. Then Ira is pregnant. Lenz feels betrayed, Ira feels abandoned by him. Can the two still save their love? Chris Gebert plays a role during Lenz's still childless days. At the beginning, when he is still purely cool and wants to do something in advertising. One night Lenz dreams that he is in a prisoner-of-war camp at the end of the war. Chris Gebert plays a GI who talks with Lenz about life — though about his life in the here and now in Berlin, in the party haze, in a state of searching. "I think it's quite exciting for the viewer, because at first you think this scene is set in 1945. But then you realise they're talking about things from the present. Let's see how it works in the film." Laura Maria Heid appears in one of the film's key scenes, the birth of the child. She is one of two midwives who deliver Lenz and Ira's baby. "Luckily my acting partner was a 'real' midwife. She has already attended around 600 births. So I was able to pepper her with questions beforehand and find out what actually happens at such a birth and how it unfolds, because our movements and assistance had to be right. I know everything now — I won't need an antenatal class any more, should I ever have a child," the actress recounts, laughing. She was also impressed by the acting of Erich Klotzsch as Lenz and Lana Cooper as Ira. "They played the birth scene incredibly well. We had to pull ourselves together so as not to cry when the child 'arrived'. It looked that real." So, gentlemen, watch an imaginative Lenz who mostly lives in memories, daydreams and grand images. It is a film told from a man's perspective! "Liebesfilm" is currently being edited and will soon be seen on ZDF's Das kleine Fernsehspiel!
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