The Fisherman and His Wife - why women never get enough
Release Date: 2005 - Wide Release
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Film Genre: Comedy, Family Drama
Country: Germany
In this modern variation on the Grimm Brothers fairy tale, Ida and Otto fall in love at first sight in rural Japan. She's there to find inspiration for her fabric designs and he's a veterinarian buying koi for German collectors. They marry in a traditional Japanese ceremony, but back home in Germany the bloom quickly goes off the rose of their romance. Otto is content with helping Ida further her career, to the neglect of his own, while Ida wants it all: motherhood, - Otto stays home to care for the baby - a flourishing design business and an ambitious, successful husband. The more Otto gives up for her, the more she wants and the more forlorn he becomes. Their once perfect love is on the verge of self-destructing...