A Whole Life

Witness 80 years of a single life go by in a flash through the eyes and heart of Andreas Egger, who will experience love, loss, war, and the onslaught of modernity as the 20th century unfolds in and around the remote mountain village he calls home. Based on the bestselling novel by Robert Seethaler.Orphaned at a young age, Andreas is sent to live on a farm in a remote German mountainside village. As he grows into adulthood, he builds a life with his great love Marie, taking work in the industrialization that will begin to transform his town and life. As war and tragedy strike, the arc of his life is revealed to be a spiritual journey for the ages, with his soul as forever altered as the face of his mountainside home. Telling an epic and intimate story that spans nearly the entire 20th century, A WHOLE LIFE is an immaculately mounted visual experience and a novelistic, vast tale of the human spirit. —C.F.This film is presented in loving memory of Ronald Allen Gold, a generous and enthusiastic supporter of CIFF since its inception.