- published: 23 Apr 2009
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Cherry Blossoms (German: Kirschblüten – Hanami) is a 2008 German drama film directed by Doris Dörrie. This film, starring Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner and Aya Irizuki, tells the story of Rudi: terminally ill, he travels to Japan after the sudden death of his wife Trudi – in order to make up for missed opportunities in life.
The story culminates in a pilgrimage to Mount Fuji in the midst of the cherry blossom season, a celebration of beauty, impermanence, and new beginnings.
Trudi (Hannelore Elsner) and Rudi (Elmar Wepper) are an affectionate, long-married couple whose children have grown up and moved away. They live in a small Bavarian village. Trudi learns that her husband is terminally ill. The doctor suggests a final adventure, which the two wanted to have for some time, but never managed.
Trudi decides to keep the disease secret from Rudi. She manages to convince him to visit their children and grandchildren in Berlin. But when they arrive, they realize that their children are too busy with their own lives to take care of the parents. Then they decide to drive to the Baltic Sea. But there, Trudi suddenly dies. Rudi is thrown completely off track and doesn't know how to go on. After he learns from his daughter's girlfriend that Trudi has actually sacrificed her life out of love for him, he starts to see his dead wife with new eyes.
Cherry Blossoms Trailer
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A black television screen
Snow white and black
Deep and open
Splashing against the windows
Looking out onto a three-terrace town
There's a garden, gray-green
And cherry blossoms
Get in in the morning
(All seasons here, saved for a rainy day)
Climb in beside you
(A part of a hole)
Watch the clock for half an hour
(An orange and it's peel)
It's cold on the outside
There's steam on the windows
(A star in a night sky)
And I put myself there all the time
(A gentle beauty)
You let me forget again
And I snore on and on
You let me forget again
Forget how it feels to be wrong
If I could show her completely
(Funny how everything makes you feel low when you're already low)
But it comes so drunkardly now
(Lying on the bed, the light bulb banging down)
Fall over on my words
(Get up, pull the sheet from the window, to see the rain still coming down)
That peace when the door slams
(Downstairs there's hot coffee, sit down to a cigarette)
Soon shattered [Incomprehensible]
(Down to the filter, another and down to my last)
I came so well-oiled
(Another and my last penny)
You let me forget again
(4 a.m. 6 feet down, already up with the larks)
And I came stumbling through
You let me forget again
(4 a.m. 6 feet down, already up with the larks)