The story of two people going through crises coincides with the reality of the last sanatorium of its kind. For over 100 years, people have come to this place in the hope of being cured. So do Nina and Henri, both in midlife, burnt out, and from different backgrounds. Their paths cross between the dining room and therapy, at a time when they are struggling to find their inner peace. Then the place is snowed in, and everything becomes slow and quiet. The ghosts and stories from the long corridors become their companions. While the two read each other the riot act and try to forget their loneliness, a historian digs through the house archives for documents from the early days of the sanatorium. She researches the sanatorium as a focal point of the modern history of exhaustion and traces a narrative from neurasthenia to the inner restlessness of the present for her dissertation. The house becomes a setting for an archaeology of exhaustion.
Formen moderner Erschöpfung
Sascha Hilpert
Nominated for:
Förderpreis neues deutsches Kino
Friedrich-Baur-Goldpreis
Hofer Kritiker Preis
Born in the Bay of Cologne. Studied film and cultural studies at the University of Television and Film Munich and Humboldt-
University Berlin. Member of the Haliflor Committee between 2010 and 2020. Active as author of many TV reports on cinema, other cultural topics and as a freelance director.
| 2000 | Tresen | Kurzfilm | |
| 2007 | Lötzsch | Dokumentarfilm | |
| 2010 | Die Chipionastrasse | Drehbuch Drehbuch |
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| 2017 | Trailer | Kurzfilm | |
| 2024 | Formen moderner Erschöpfung | Spielfilm | 2024 |

