Hannah und ihre Schwestern

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by Woody Allen

Three sisters from a family of actors form the center of this roundelay of love entanglements and identity discoveries: Hannah, the eldest, has temporarily given up her acting career and is in her second marriage to Elliot, a successful financial broker, who falls in love at Thanksgiving with the youngest sister Lee, who lives with the much older painter Frederick. Unaware of Elliot's relationship, Hannah is concerned for everyone's happiness. She had even encouraged the second sister, Holly, whose life has been a failure in every respect, to go on a date with Mickey Sachs, her first husband and television producer: Mickey and Holly experience the evening as a disaster. When they meet again years later, there is still a spark between them. In the meantime, Lee has separated from both Elliot and Frederick. The traditional Thanksgiving reunites the family in new and old combinations...

Woody Allen received three Oscars for this film (best original screenplay, best male and best female supporting role). It is directed by Christian Brey, a specialist in comedy and especially in Woody Allen's comedy(Husbands and Wives, Matchpoint), who is best known in Mainz for The Little Shop of Horrors, among other things. His production transports us to a colorful New York of the 1980s, atmospherically supported by many well-known songs of the time. The large ensemble piece explores the comedic depths of Allen's cosmos in a fast-paced manner.