Full-time mom Marie has everything under control and always gives a thousand percent: raising the children, running the household, scheduling appointments with her husband - not really a problem for the woman in her late thirties if it weren't for her excessive demands on herself. Advertising executive Nela, on the other hand, is trying to reconcile the needs of her son Leo with her own career restart, while her husband wants a second child. And single woman Tine is trying to reclaim her life as a young twenty-something, despite having a young daughter. Something is slowly brewing on the playground, the battlefield of the mothers, where they try to outdo each other with home-baked spelt cookies. How far will the mothers go to hold on to their own idea of happiness? Or does life have surprising solutions in store...?
Acting
Julia Jentsch's barely-held-together perfectionism is devastatingly funny.
Writing
Sharp German satire that stings because it knows too much.
Director
Felicitas Darschin
Julia Jentsch
Marie Wohlenberg
Kristin Suckow
Tine Möller
Matthias Weidenhöfer
Udo Wohlenberg
Michael Kranz
Hannes
Gundi Ellert
Gisela Berg
Ulrike Arnold
Heidi Möller
Brigitte Hobmeier
Ariane Schiller-Waldburg
Annette Frier
Gitti Waldleitner
Marlene Morreis
Jenny
Stefan Wilkening
Mr. Pomeier
Katharina M. Schubert
Julia Kaiser
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The German 'Rabenmutter' (raven mother) stereotype—career-focused moms as selfish—haunts Nela's entire storyline.
Director Felicitas Darschin based Marie's spelt cookie obsession on real Berlin parent-group hierarchies she observed.
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