A charming look at unique characters
In "Weserlust Hotel" disabled people make a film together with non-disabled people. It is a charming view of the unique film shoot for the feature film "All Inclusive" with crazy guys, funny moments and philosophical thoughts. In "All Inclusive" Ricky, very fit with slight limitations, inherits a hotel and doesn't know whether he should be happy about it. Does he really want to become a hotel manager? Can he really do that? No, that's what those who see an advantage in it think. But Ricky does not let himself be put off and gets friends to support him. On the way to making a final decision, he does a lot of wrong, but even more right!
"They all have a tick somewhere", says Hannelore Sporleder, Britta the cook in the feature film and protagonist in the documentary. "The film is all about the disabled being able to live well with those who think they are normal." There's no better way to say whether you have schizo-affective psychosis of the manifest form or not, whatever that might be.
After "Crazy About Paris" and "All Inclusive" now comes Eike Besuden's "Weserlust Hotel": A lively film about the astonishing implementation of inclusion. Here problems are solved in a way you never imagined before, here people think out of the box and very successfully. The extraordinary making-of of a feature film, in which disabled people take on leading and supporting roles alongside well-known actors (Dominique Horwitz, Doris Kunstmann, etc.) and also participate in other trades such as camera, costume or equipment.
EA production by Penguin Studios in co-production with NDR. Supported by funds from nordmedia, the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation, the Social Associations of Germany Lower Saxony and Bremen and the crowdfunding campaign "Weserlust Hotel". Distributed by W-film Distribution.
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- 2017: Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney, DE
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