soniamarqueskiderle This film is really recommendable, and I think that this subject of senile dementia and is very difficult to show and there are only a few films on this subject. The mix of sadness and good moments is really good and makes this film very refreshing and worth to watch.There are some things that I didn't like of this film, but I'm being very critical, because I think that without this few "mistakes" that I think that they have done, the film would be excellent. (There are maybe a bit spoilers)-The character of the wife, mother and the daughter in law is excessive in all the situations and too untrue. -There are very few times were the grandparent gets angry, aggressive..., and if a person suffers senile dementia I have heard that it's usual to become like this when you don't understand whats happening to you etc.-The daughter in law of the grandpa quits for being with him. Why? First I thought that this was male chauvinist and absurd. Why must the woman quite the job and not the man who is his son? And in my opinion the best that would be to show the usual situation, and not a situation where a rich family can afford to resign a job. I think the normal situation is that no one quites his job and I don't know, the grandparent goes to a residence or receives help from a professional...But I repeat, this film is worth to watch.

Ehrgeiz 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.

selena-71096 I totally agree with Meta Pomieske and other reviewers who gave this movie one star. I lasted 20 min, may be,just could not take it any longer. First of all nothing is realistic in this movie and it is on the edge of being an absurdous one. The girl was seriously overacting in my opinion,her father a talented actor, was underacting, they made an idiot of the senile grandpa. Everything looked and sounded faked and forced. The movie starts with an underage girl traveling by train with a senile old man hugging a soft toy and it is presented as nothing is wrong with it. Then she allegedly overlooks his absence. Give me a break.

feyza-balak I would like to talk about two characters and the way their attitude is being dangerously idealized in the movie:First of all, Tilda, the small child almost takes over the responsibility of her parents, taking her grandfather to a trip abroad. She witnesses how her grandpa slowly loses the capability of leading his own life and this is simply not something that a child can handle psychologically. For a child to carry such parental responsibilities is being referred to as a severe trauma in psychology and it shouldn't be idealized in a movie. Moreover, when she takes off with her grandpa, interestingly no one ever wonders where she may be and what may happen to them. So instead of being deeply worried for her, Niko and Sarah brush up their sex life. Really?!Secondly, Sarah, Niko's wife is portrayed as a very unpleasant character and in the movie, this is tied to the fact that she doesn't want her husband's father to live with them. At the end, where the character transforms into an ideal (!) woman, she quits her job to look after Amandus and to spend more time with her daughter. This is nothing but a gender stereotype being reinforced in a very emotionally abusive manner. Again, such experiences have caused and are causing many women in the world to have traumatic experiences when it comes to having a family and wanting to realize themselves. I was very disappointed to see so many gender stereotypes being reinforced in the movie. The people of this world have endured enough traumas and they should not be idealized in any way, let alone in a movie by Til Schweiger that is guaranteed to reach millions of people.