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
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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