Yann, photographer and recently divorced, meets Alicia in a bar. Attracted at first sight, they soon are engaged in an affair. When Alicia leaves her husband and moves in with Yann, power struggles ensue. Thilda, Yann's 12-year-old daughter who lives with his ex-wife, instinctively blocks Alicia, who lives out her mood swings in borderline mode. Yann tries to escape the situation by taking up with with Tabea, while Alicia quits her job and resumes an abandoned psychology degree. But she parties all day with drugs and is also involved in other affairs.

As Yann’s relationship with Tabea grows closer, he tries to break away from Alicia, who in return tells him she is pregnant. Their fights come to a head. Psychological abysses without a filter. Both gradually steer into depression. Until the moment when they surrender to each other in exhaustion…

Cast

Yann
Detlef Bothe
Alicia
Ariella Hirshfeld
Tabea
Fabienne Lopes
Thilda
Johannah Freimuth
Hans
George Lenz
Udo
Wolfgang Hammerschmid
Nina
Nina Brandhoff
Thomas
Sascha Maaz
Olga
Suzanne Landsfried
Sonja
Mila Stephan
Arzt
Anno Köhler
Deine schöne Hölle - Poster 2

Your beautiful hell

Detlef Bothe

  • Fiction
Production Country / Year
Germany 2023
Language
de. OF mit en. UT
Format
DCP, Color, 117min
1.85:1, Discrete 5.1
Original Title
Deine schöne Hölle

Director & Crew

Detlef Bothe 1

Detlef Bothe

Born in 1965 in Braunschweig. Apprenticeship as a car mechanic. Worked as bar operator, music promoter, and car dealer. Trained as an actor at the Zinnerstudio in Munich. Works as director, actor, author and speaker.

Filmography

2002 FEIERTAG, Spielfilm

2004 MEINE FRAU, MEINE FREUNDE UND ICH, Fernsehfilm

2007 TOUR EXCESSE – NEBEN DER SPUR, Spielfilm

2009 MEIN, Spielfilm

2014 INTO THE SUITE, Spielfilm

2015 EVA.S DIE NATIONALISTIN, Spielfilm  Hof 2015

2019 KLEINE GROSSE KÄMPFER, Dokumentarfilm

2023 DEINE SCHÖNE HÖLLE, Spielfilm  HOF 2023

“DEINE SCHÖNE HÖLLE. The struggle between a woman and a man.

With narcissism, borderline, sex addiction, bipolarity and gaslighting as weapons.”

Detlef Bothe

Director of Photography
Holger Fleig (BVK)
Christoph Harrer
Editor
Detlef Bothe
Costume Designer
Teresa Grosser
Producer
Detlef Bothe

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