After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday, shares this fate and feels almost invisible to her husband. Daughter Julie is working on her modeling career, but a flaw is discovered on her body again and again ...
Acting
Gedeck's silent devastation in every mirror scene.
Writing
Herfurth's script refuses easy redemption arcs.
Direction
Herfurth's gaze that refuses to punish female bodies.
Director
Karoline Herfurth
Karoline Herfurth
Sonja
Nora Tschirner
Vicky
Martina Gedeck
Frauke Abeck
Emilia Schüle
Julie Abeck
Dilara Aylin Ziem
Leyla
Joachim Król
Wolfgang Abeck
Friedrich Mücke
Milan
Maximilian Brückner
Franz
Eve Borchardt
Kollegin Milan
Milo Eisenblätter
Piet
Melika Foroutan
Gabo
Diego Wallraff
Tanzlehrer
Marlene Burow
Natasha
Sarah Bauerett
Mutter 4
Thimo Meitner
Martin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Herfurth became first woman to win German Film Award for directing with this, 72 years after the award's creation. Let that sink in.
The title 'Wunderschön' is vicious irony—no character feels it until possibly the final frame.
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