Marko Doringer

A bittersweet relationship film about love, work and the daily struggle for happiness.

At sixty life only begins, at thirty it's already half over! The thirtieth birthday, the day when the two is replaced by the three, is a dreaded date: Now heads must be nailed down!

Marko is 35-years-old and moving into an apartment with his girlfriend, but he has many doubts. In order to find out why, he follows three friendly couples over two years. With humor and quick-wittedness he uncovers fears, doubts and hopes of a fulfilled partnership. A touchingly ironic voyage of self-discovery.

After the communist regime collapsed (1991), three young people in Tirana, capital of Albania, found themselves in a world which was new and unknown to them. Wild years of radical personal re-orientation follow.

Marko Doringer’s life is marked by recurring depressions. The filmmaker asks what expectations he wants to and can have of happiness under these circumstances and looks to his partner, longtime friends, former places of longing, and his parents’ house for answers. The result of this search is an intimate documentary about the complex interplay and opposition of family, masculinity, care, responsibility, and fragility.

A bittersweet relationship film about love, work and the daily struggle for happiness.

A bittersweet relationship film about love, work and the daily struggle for happiness.

A bittersweet relationship film about love, work and the daily struggle for happiness.

At sixty life only begins, at thirty it's already half over! The thirtieth birthday, the day when the two is replaced by the three, is a dreaded date: Now heads must be nailed down!

At sixty life only begins, at thirty it's already half over! The thirtieth birthday, the day when the two is replaced by the three, is a dreaded date: Now heads must be nailed down!

At sixty life only begins, at thirty it's already half over! The thirtieth birthday, the day when the two is replaced by the three, is a dreaded date: Now heads must be nailed down!

Marko is 35-years-old and moving into an apartment with his girlfriend, but he has many doubts. In order to find out why, he follows three friendly couples over two years. With humor and quick-wittedness he uncovers fears, doubts and hopes of a fulfilled partnership. A touchingly ironic voyage of self-discovery.

Marko is 35-years-old and moving into an apartment with his girlfriend, but he has many doubts. In order to find out why, he follows three friendly couples over two years. With humor and quick-wittedness he uncovers fears, doubts and hopes of a fulfilled partnership. A touchingly ironic voyage of self-discovery.

After the communist regime collapsed (1991), three young people in Tirana, capital of Albania, found themselves in a world which was new and unknown to them. Wild years of radical personal re-orientation follow.

Marko Doringer’s life is marked by recurring depressions. The filmmaker asks what expectations he wants to and can have of happiness under these circumstances and looks to his partner, longtime friends, former places of longing, and his parents’ house for answers. The result of this search is an intimate documentary about the complex interplay and opposition of family, masculinity, care, responsibility, and fragility.