A look into the Kastl: Christmas patchwork tragicomedy

A look into the Kastl: Christmas patchwork tragicomedy

Jasmin Gerat (Nicole) and Maximilian Brückner (Chris)
Image: VOLKER WEIHBOLD

A chance encounter on the train can be the beginning of a great love. Even the greatest happiness comes with a test: Christmas. Especially in a patchwork constellation: a single widower (Maximilian Brückner) with two teenagers and his new girlfriend (Jasmin Gerat) in the tragicomedy “A Rainbow for Christmas” (yesterday, ORF 2). The setting is a mountain hut on a skiing holiday. Even if many feel-good scenes fall gently like snowflakes, an avalanche is triggered. A first love affair and a skiing accident force the patchwork quartet to sort out conflicts: first disappointments and identity crises among the youth (the young talents Sophie Paasch and Louis Eitner) and conflicts of loyalty among the adults.

It wouldn’t be a movie or Christmas if everything weren’t good – thanks to rainbow cookies and the conciliatory magic word “Merry Christmas.” A tragicomedy that highlights problems but solves them all too easily.

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