Die Böhms: Architektur einer Familie

Gottfried Böhm is widely regarded as Germany's preeminent architect. The son of a master builder of churches, he is the patriarch of an architecture dynasty to which his three sons Stephan, Peter und Paul 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 intensifies the 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 persist? The film paints an intimate and pointed portrait of the complexity and inseparability of love, art and architecture. (Berlinale)