A Heavy Heart 2015 123movies

Watch: Herbert 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – Herbert lived well from his giant body for years, as a boxer since the GDR, nicknamed ‘Pride of Leipzig’, and now as bouncer and debt collector, while training promising boxers, especially gentle Eddy, who got a shot at the title in a much lower weight class. After ignoring symptoms for months, collapsing Herbert is diagnosed with the incurable muscular disease ALS, and is bluntly dropped from all his jobs and the gym. Seeking to set straight what went wrong is his life, he mends as good as he can with his daughter -neglected since age six- and deals with girl friend Marlene. Herbert is lucky with great home assistant Steffen, even gets to cheer protege Eddy to his title as last sportive achievement..
Plot: A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 769
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Reviews:

An Emotional Mine Shaft
This film is not an emotional roller coaster. Roller coasters take you up and down, and in loops.A roller coaster can produce a feeling of joy and excitement. This film can more symbolically be represented by a mine shaft. A mine shaft just keeps going down, and the feeling is more akin to a journey into darkness. Also, like a mine shaft, this film can feel like a lot of work. Frankly, I felt emotionally exhausted by the end of it.

Look, I’m not saying this is a bad movie; please don’t misunderstand me, but it’s like someone watched “The Wrestler”, and thought “Wow that was good, if only it was more depressing!”

“A Heavy Heart” AKA “Herbert” AKA “The Cinematic Plunge Into One Man’s Hell On Earth” isn’t afraid of its subject matter (degenerative brain disease); it instead grabs you by the back of your skull and pushes your face against it saying “See, see here? This is the ugly truth. You don’t like it? Well deal with it because this is just a taste of what many people have to live with.”

As stated before this film shares a lot of similarities with “The Wrestler”. It is a character-piece driven by an amazing performance by Peter Kurth who plays a has-been boxer.

Like “The Wrestler” this is a story about a man trying to continue his existence while grappling with his mortality.

Also, just like in the wrestler, once our protagonist learns he is dying he tries to repair the broken relationship between him and his daughter.

That’s about as deep into things as I can get into the story without wandering into spoiler territory, but I would like to reiterate how amazing Peter Kurth is in this film. The man dug deep and delivered a performance I won’t soon forget.

So the final verdict? I wanna give this film a higher score, but I just can’t honestly do that. The last 30 minutes of the movie I found myself just waiting for it to be over already.

The performances were great, and I respect the director’s commitment to style, but finishing “A Heavy Heart” began to feel like a chore towards the end.

Very strong lead performance, solid otherwise
“Herbert” is a German movie that had its world premiere last year and hit cinemas recently here in Germany. It runs for 110 minutes and is the story of a man in the last year of his life. we witness how things get worse and worse when he id diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Herbert was a really successful boxer in East Germany decades ago and now he lives his life training boxing prospects and collecting money for dubious businessmen and some violence is included in this business as well. The writer and director is Thomas Stuber and it is his second (not first as some say) full feature film. Other than that he has worked mostly on short films and television now. And “Herbert” is also by far his biggest success now. It finished second at the German Film Awards behind the big winner of the night “Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer” and lead actor Peter Kurth won his category surprisingly over Burghart Klaußner. And while I like Klaußner a lot too, I must say that Kurth is equally deserving. He is the driving force in here that makes it all work and I was genuinely interested in what would happen next to his character. The film is not much shorter than two hours and it never dragged. I believe it was a bit generic at times and there were situations where it could have been better in terms of making a real lasting statement on the illness. I also felt that the female love interest to Herbert added almost nothing to the movie. The story about his daughter and granddaughter was more interesting, even if that one felt also slightly generic at times. But overall, the good outweighs the bad thanks to Kurth mostly. This is one of the better German films of the year and I recommend checking it out.

Other Information:

Original Language de
Runtime 1 hr 49 min (109 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama
Director Thomas Stuber
Writer Thomas Stuber, Clemens Meyer, Paul Salisbury
Actors Peter Kurth, Lina Wendel, Edin Hasanovic
Country Germany
Awards 5 wins & 7 nominations
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Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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