Am seidenen Faden
A couple coping with a fundamental crisis together is the core of the documentary AM SEIDEN FADEN (2004). Filmmaker Katarina Peters and her husband Boris Babberkoff, a successful cellist from Hungary, travel to New York together shortly after their wedding. He wants to close a record deal, she wants to do research for a new film. But Boris Babberkoff suffers a serious stroke there. His life is in danger and at first he can hardly move or speak. The director decides to document the problems of this situation, such as financing the treatment and his healing process, with a small video camera. (Goethe Institut Kanada)
In her film diary, the director documents the healing process of her husband (a young musician) after a severe stroke of the brain. The way she tells her story allows us a very intimate insight into the lives of both spouses that have changed lastingly, in their fight for their marriage and their future existence. This very moving film about a young couple that copes with their fate does by no means suppress the doubts and the dangers in this fight: an example of love and responsibility, of courage and desire to live.