The Man Who Ate the World (2020)

This man is a disaster: irresponsible, aggressive, greedy and narcissistic. He has left his wife and children and pays alimony only irregularly. He keeps his sick brother at a distance and uses his best friend at best as a punching ball and cheap lender. To reach his goal, he destroys everything that was important in his life. How and why he feels like that, he doesn't talk about: Is he depressed, is it a midlife crisis, maybe a burnout? When his father, who is alone and developing dementia, needs help, and he lets him move in with him, a generational conflict breaks out, which shows how misunderstood and helpless this father-son relationship was and still is. The son still wants to please his father, the father longs for nothing more than the success of the son. The rifts between the two are deep and the descent of the son cannot be stopped. Johannes Suhm's sensitive adaptation of the internationally successful play "The Man Who Ate the World" by Nis Momme Stockmann is the portrait of a man representing a whole generation in their mid-life, their search of identity, their struggle with their own ego and a misguided masculinity. A generation of men who have lost their role models and whose own emotional wounds seem to be deeper than they themselves think possible. A story about male hubris, repressed feelings, unconscious depression and the hard struggle for success in a capitalist world where fragility has no place.