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From Beginning to End (Portuguese: Do Começo ao Fim) is a 2009 Brazilian romantic drama film directed by Aluizio Abranches, starring Fábio Assunção, Júlia Lemmertz, Gabriel Kaufmann, Lucas Cotrim, João Gabriel Vasconcellos and Rafael Cardoso. It premiered in Brazil on November 27, 2009. The film deals with homosexuality and incest, two types of relationships that are often considered to be taboo. Abranches claims that his only intention was to tell a love story.

The release of the film in Brazil, with only nine copies, was seen by almost 100,000 spectators, leading the film to be on the list of the top 10 most watched Brazilian films of 2009. It was shown in more than 30 national and international festivals, and it was also commercialized in more than 30 countries. In 2010 it was released in DVD in Brazil with success. In France, after a very successful premiere in the cinemas, the first edition of the DVD and Blu-ray was sold out in less than two weeks,^{[citation needed]} and it became a best seller internationally through websites such as Fnac and Amazon.

Plot

• 1986 — Thomás is born with his eyes closed, and he does not open them for several weeks following the birth. Julieta, his mother, is unconcerned, believing that when Thomás is ready and wants to open his eyes, he will. These events instill a strong belief in free will in young Thomás. Two weeks after his birth, Thomás opens his eyes, apparently to look directly at his five-year-old half-brother Francisco.
• 1992 — Julieta is a wife and a loving mother, working in a hospital emergency department. Her free-spirited youngest son, Thomás, is the product of her marriage to her second husband Alexandre. Pedro, her first husband and father of her eldest son Francisco, lives in Argentina. Pedro and Julieta remain good friends. During childhood, Francisco and Thomás are very close, perhaps too close according to Pedro, with whom they spend a Christmas holiday in Buenos Aires. Julieta is aware of their close relationship and tries to remain understanding. Not long later, Pedro dies.
• 2008 — Years later, when Francisco is 27 and Thomás 22, Julieta dies. The brothers become lovers and a love story ensues. Thomás is invited to live and train in Russia for a few years in preparation for the Olympics. Though it is the first time they will be apart, Thomás leaves. Francisco struggles without Thomás. He meets a woman in a club and though he tries to pursue a relationship with her, they both realize he is dedicated to someone else. Unable to be apart any longer, Francisco travels to Russia and the brothers happily reunite.

Cast

• Rafael Cardoso as Thomás
  • Gabriel Kaufmann as Thomás at age six
• João Gabriel Vasconcellos as Francisco
  • Lucas Cotrim as Francisco at age 11
• Júlia Lemmertz as Julieta
• Fábio Assunção as Alexandre
• Jean Pierre Noher as Pedro
• Louise Cardoso as Rosa
• Mausi Martínez

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Free Fall (German: Freier Fall) is a 2013 German drama film directed by Stephan Lacant who also wrote the script with Karsten Dahlem, and starring Hanno Koffler, Max Riemelt, and Katharina Schüttler. The film tells the story of police officer, Marc Borgmann (Koffler), who lives with his pregnant girlfriend, Bettina Bischoff (Schüttler). Whilst on a training course, Borgmann meets fellow police officer, Kay Engel (Riemelt), and a romance develops between the two men. Borgmann is torn between his love for Bettina and his new found feelings for another man. When Engel disappears for a while, Borgmann realises his life is rapidly going into “free fall“, as he cannot meet the high expectations of the people he knows.^[4]

Filming began in Ludwigsburg, Germany, in the summer of 2012. Freier Fall has been compared to Brokeback Mountain and received good reviews following its première at the Berlin Film Festival on 8 February 2013,^[2] and at the Frameline Film Festival in the United States on 21 June 2013.^[1] The original motion picture soundtrack written by music duo Dürbeck & Dohmen was released digitally online by MovieScore Media to coincide with the film’s opening release on 23 May 2013.^[5] It made a box office gross of $599,721.^[3]

Plot

Marc Borgmann, a young police officer, is on a training course for the riot control unit. He is struggling at the police academy, being somewhat behind his peers in his physical training. Marc does not initially get along with his roommate at the academy, Kay Engel. They have a physical confrontation during a training exercise, but afterwards Marc apologizes for his aggressive behavior and they become friends. The two begin jogging together regularly, with Kay instructing Marc (on more than one occasion) to “breathe evenly”. During one jog, Kay kisses Marc as they share a marijuana cigarette. Marc is reassured by Kay that he was joking. On a subsequent jog the two kiss and Kay gives him a handjob.

Kay is later transferred into Marc’s police unit to fill a vacancy, where Marc finds it difficult to ignore him. Kay shows up with a colleague to a bowling alley where Marc and his family are having a game and is introduced to Bettina, Marc’s pregnant longtime girlfriend. Marc attempts to stay committed to Bettina and forget about Kay, but goes back to the jogging trail, where Kay is waiting. The two have sex in the rain. Bettina grows suspicious of Marc’s activities as Marc continues to have intimate encounters with Kay under the guise of having night shifts; Kay also gives him a key to his apartment. Marc finds himself less able to sexually perform with Bettina, which he explains is due to her pregnancy.

Marc and Kay later go to a gay bar, where Marc takes ecstasy. The next morning, Bettina rebuffs his advances and asks him if he is seeing another woman, which Marc denies. Bettina goes through Marc’s phone and finds recent calls from Kay. Bettina gives birth to their son, and Marc tries to cut Kay out his life; however, Kay attempts to contact Marc, leading to a physical altercation with Marc demanding to be left alone.

Marc later finds out that Kay was discovered at a gay bar that the unit raided. He then shows up at Kay’s apartment and accuses Kay of going to the bar to find other men to sleep with. Kay calls Marc selfish but says he loves him and that he is not sleeping with anyone else. Marc tries to leave but breaks down in Kay’s arms and the two share a kiss.

Later, Kay attacks his fellow officer Limpinski, following a homophobic incident. Marc gets hit in an attempt to separate the two. Kay visits Marc in the hospital, and the two share a kiss that Marc’s mother witnesses. After Marc catches up to her, they have an argument and Marc leaves alone. Later, Kay arrives at a party after Bettina’s invitation, where Marc’s parents tell him to stay away from Marc due to his new family. Marc, overhearing the conversation, tells him to leave.

Marc visits Kay at his apartment to find Kay’s face bruised following an altercation with Limpinski. Marc advises him to transfer to another unit, and Kay asks about the future of their relationship. Marc returns the key to his apartment and departs. He returns home to find Bettina packing to leave with their son; she has learned that he has been lying about working night shifts and wants him gone by the time she has returned, questioning Marc’s friendship with Kay. Marc visits her at Frank’s house, and admits his affair with Kay.

Bettina eventually returns to the house with their son, but there is emotional distance between them. Marc tries to visit Kay at his apartment to find it empty; Kay has moved, also departing from the unit without notice. When Limpinski tries to goad Marc about his relationship with Kay, Marc taunts him, leading Limpinski to assault him. Frank witnesses this and implies that Limpinski will be let go. Marc, unhappy, visits the gay bar alone, and though he initiates a sexual encounter with another man, he ends up rebuffing him. Back at the house, Marc and Bettina admit to each other that they cannot see their relationship continuing. The film concludes with Marc at the academy, on a jog with his peers as in the first scene of the film; he outpaces them and runs ahead, alone.

Cast

• Hanno Koffler as Marc Borgmann
• Max Riemelt as Kay Engel
• Katharina Schüttler as Bettina Bischoff
• Oliver Bröcker as Frank Richter
• Stephanie Schönfeld as Claudia Richter
• Britta Hammelstein as Britt Rebmann
• Shenja Lacher as Gregor Limpinski
• Maren Kroymann as Inge Borgmann
• Louis Lamprecht as Wolfgang Borgmann
• Vilmar Bieri as Lothar Bischoff
• Attila Borlan as Werner Brandt
• Horst Krebs as Bernd Eiden
• Samuel Schnepf as Benno Borgmann

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