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"Und Weg Bist Du" (not a good title to be honest) is a German television movie from 2012, so this one has its 5th anniversary already this year. It runs for 95 minutes roughly and was directed by Oscar winner Jochen Alexander Freydank (his first full feature movie). The consequence of this is that you find actually really many big names in here for a television release, like Herbst, Frier, Schweiger, Ochsenknecht, Kempter, Yardim, Kubitschek, von Bülow and Til Schweiger's daughter Emma. These would be the most known ones I guess, but you can also add Hübschmann, who also appears in Freydank's Oscar-winning work. But even with a cast like that, it is no guarantee for a good quality film if the script is a mess and sadly in terms of Monika Peetz' screenplay this is the case here. This is basically the story of a mother who suffers from terminal cancer and the impact Death has on her life. Death is played by Christoph Maria Herbst here. The consequence is that we see death as an emotionless character early on in what is perhaps the most entertaining scene of the entire film with Uwe Ochsenknecht, who admittedly has grown a bit on me over the past year. But the more the film focuses on Frier's character, the more cringeworthy it all becomes. Those moments that could actually have worked from an emotional or touching perspective were destroyed by unrealistic plot developments and side stories that add absolutely nothing at all and are just weak filler material like Yardim's character's. Oh yeah death is constantly around the latter because he is "half dead since the death of his wife/girlfriend". That must be the most cringeworthy quote of the entire film in the way they somehow tried to justify Death's presence there and explain this plot. Like many many other films from Germany right now this film fails for the most part when it tries to make a statement, tries so desperately to send a message to the audience while including zero subtlety about it all. Quality filmmakers send messages through their story. This film here includes some unhealthy overweight guy who has nothing to do with the film at the very end who gets dissed by a nurse who has nothing to do with the film in perhaps the most randomly embarrassing moment I have seen in a long time. I tend to call it typical Schweighöfer stuff, even if he wasn't in this film obviously. For me it is especially sad that this was messed up so hard as I actually like Herbst and Kempter and kinda like Frier, so this could have really been a rewarding watch, but yeah like I wrote earlier, even the most talented actors cannot make garbage scripts like this one here work. I suggest you stay away.