Kalt ist der Abendhauch (2000, Germany)

A well-to-do middle class German family is celebrating a wedding, but one of the daughters is not; she had expected to be the bride, instead of her elder sister. Most of the film flashes forward and back between the present day, when the girl is 83 years old, and the past.

At the wedding, near the beginning of the film, the youngest son suddenly appears in a dress and sings Ave Maria to the wedding guests. An elderly guest with bad eyesight says, "What a sweet girl!" This does not go down well with his narrow minded father, and shortly afterwards the boy hangs himself.

The boy's interest in cross-dressing is not further explored, and the incident is only introduced as a metaphor for the bad augury of the wedding.

The boy is Albert, played by David Stoy. The film title means "Cool blows the evening breeze", referring to the rejected sister's later life.

HF July 2007

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