DIE BÖHMS Concrete Love

Gottfried Böhm is widely regarded as Germany’s preeminent architect. The son of a master builder of churches, he is the patriarch of a modern architecture dynasty to which his three sons Stephan, Peter und Paul now belong. By realizing outstanding prominent buildings of their own, the Böhm fils have managed to step out of the shadow of their famous father. But the ongoing crisis in the German construction industry, among other things, has stoked the fires of competition between the brothers.

Gottfried, now 94, still contributes daily to the work on current planning and construction projects. With the death of his wife Elisabeth, also an architect and a key source of inspiration for all four Böhms, the family loses its emotional lodestone. Can the fragile architecture of the family business a viable model for the future? The film paints an intimate and pointed portrait of the complexity and inseparability of life, love, faith, art and architecture.

PRESS
"A FILM ABOUT LIFE, LOVE AND FAITH. IT IS LIBERATING AND ELEGANT."
- CINEUROPE

"THIS IS NUMBER ONE OF ANY FILM YOU MUST SEE THIS YEAR!"
- ARCHDAILY

"CINEMATIC EXPLORATION OF AN EXCEPTIONAL FAMILY. HIGLY EMOTIONAL."
- ARTE

CREW

Director: Maurizius Staerkle-Drux
Music: Jonas Bühler
Edfitor: Anika Simon
Production: Carl-Ludwig Rettinger, Lisa Blatter, Jan Gassmann, Lichtblick Film Köln and 2:1 Film Zürich

Documentary Film in Co-Produktion with WDR, SWR und BR