Brüder (2002)

The three brothers could hardly be more different. Ernst Stadler is a successful award-winning chef with his own gourmet restaurant. His older brother Ludwig is also a cook, but is currently in prison. Adrian, the youngest of the three, is a nurse and gay. When their mother suffers a heart attack, they set off together for a hospital in Leipzig. Shortly after they arrive, their mother dies. She had stipulated that she wanted to be buried in Pomßen, Saxony. There, they find a clue to Wickerl’s biological father. They track down Ernstl’s father in Hungary. He had once abandoned their pregnant mother. In biological terms, Adrian is not their brother at all, but their mother took him in as a foundling. Nevertheless, they come to the realization: “And the three of us are brothers all the same.”