Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

It is the summer of 1990, the Berlin Wall has fallen and it is the last summer in the GDR before reunification. Maria, a delicate, dreamy nineteen year-old girl, lives with her boyfriend Johannes on his parents' farm, the Brendel-Hof. It is next to the Henner-Hof the largest farm in town, where a solitary harsh-natured man lives. His idiosyncratic charisma and attractiveness to women, make it hard for him to socialize. Maria meets him by chance and a single touch is enough to start a tragic love in a changing country.

• Marlene Burow as Maria
• Felix Kramer as Henner
• Cedric Eich as Johannes Brendel
• Silke Bodenbender as Marianne
• Christine Schorn as Frieda Brendel
• Peter Schneider as Volker
• Victoria Mayer as Gisela
• Jördis Triebel as Hannah
• Tom Quaas as Lindenwirth
• German von Beug as Lukas Brendel
• Petra Kalkutschke as Oma Traudel
• Stephanie Petrowitz as Sabine
• Christian Erdmann as Hartmut
• Philippine Pachl as Franzi
• Peter Rauch as Egon
• Anni Kaltwasser as Paula
• Raffaela Lanci as Jugendliche
• Lasse Gräntzel as Teenager

Based on Daniela Krien’s novel of the same name, the film is set in the summer of 1990 in the countryside around Thuringia, in former East Germany. Produced by Karsten Stöter for Row Pictures, the cast features Marlene Burow and Felix Kramer.[5]

The film was shot from 15 June 2022 to 27 July 2022 in Thuringia, state of central Germany.[6]

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything had its premiere on 17 February 2023 as part of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, in Competition. It is scheduled to release in cinemas on 13 April 2023.[4] On 20 March 2023, it was reported that Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights of the film.[7]

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes website, the film has an approval rating of 38% based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10.[8] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100 based on 5 reviews, indicating "Generally Favorable Reviews".[9]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film with 4 stars out of 5 and wrote, "It’s a vehement movie, with a driving narrative force and a robust sense of time and place."[10] Guy Lodge reviewing at Berlin Film Festival, for Variety wrote, Beyond the festival circuit, this pretty but somewhat dreary mood piece is unlikely to end up on many people’s radars at all. Concluding, Lodge quotes dialogue of the protagonist Maria's mother, “Life can be very painful, but it will pass,” as she warns her, and Lodge then writes, "The film waits it out."[11] Jordan Mintzer for The Hollywood Reporter stating that the film is "fraught with passion and platitudes", opined that it "veers toward caricature midway through, never to find its way again". He concluded, "A movie that starts off as an intriguing and well-observed coming-of-age drama, until it opts for the bedroom over the bigger picture."[12] Writing for Cineuropa, Davide Abbatescianni billed it as "a sappy coming-of-age melodrama" which sports "cheesy dialogues, slow pacing, a rather over-explanatory approach when dealing with the period it covers, many relatives whose presence does not add anything to the development of the plot - such as the lost son who fled to the West, and returns home with his wife and kids - and a communist Pioneers childhood song performed by Maria out of the blue, among other things."[13] Jonathan Romney for ScreenDaily wrote in review that the film is "Atef’s new film, a small-scale drama nevertheless attaining novelistic richness, stands to be her most successful yet, especially given contemporary demand for intelligent stories told from a perspective of female desire."[14] Steph Green writing for British Film Institute graded the film 3/5 and wrote, "But for all its beauty and sexual slipperiness, the film trips itself up with juvenile plot developments ripped from a romance paperback."[15]

• Official website
• Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything at IMDb 
• Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything at Berlinale
• Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything at Film portal
• Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything at Rotten Tomatoes