''Three'' (german: Drei) is a 2010 German drama film written, co-scored and directed by
Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer (; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films '' Run Lola Run'' (1998), '' Heaven'' (2002), '' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ...
. The film was nominated for the
Golden Lion at the
67th Venice International Film Festival.
Plot
Hanna and Simon are in a long-term relationship which, though loving, has grown sexually unexciting. Soon after Simon's mother dies from overdosing on pills, after being diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, he discovers that he has testicular cancer and must undergo surgery and chemotherapy. The night of his surgery, Hanna has a sexual encounter with a man called Adam, and Simon learns that he had fathered a child seventeen years earlier, although the woman opted for an abortion. Simon, who had assumed that either he or Hanna was infertile, is assured that he should still be able to have children after his surgery. During his recovery, Simon and Hanna decide to finally wed. Shortly beforehand, Simon encounters Adam at the pool and begins an affair with him as well.
The couple's separate affairs lead to greater happiness and sexual desire felt for one another. Adam, unaware that his two lovers are involved, develops feelings for them both. The affairs are divulged soon after Hanna discovers that she is pregnant; because she was sleeping with both Adam and Simon at the time of conception, she does not know the identity of the father. Now separated, both Hanna and Simon never contact Adam. Hanna moves to England, where she discovers that she is pregnant with twins. After she receives an invitation to an art gallery in Germany, she reconnects with Simon. The two admit that they have missed each other, but they also miss Adam. The film ends with the couple arriving at Adam's flat, where they coalesce into a happy
spooning threesome.
Cast
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Sophie Rois
Sophie Rois is an Austrian actress. She has appeared in such films as ''Three (2010 film), Three'', ''180°'', ''Enemy at the Gates'' and television programmes such as ''Polizeiruf 110'' and ''Die kleine Monsterin'' (voice).
In 2014, she appea ...
as Hanna
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Sebastian Schipper
Sebastian Schipper (born 8 May 1968) is a German actor and filmmaker.
Life and career
Sebastian Schipper studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg Schule in Munich from 1992 to 1995. He got his first film role in Sönke Wortmann's '' Little Sharks' ...
as Simon
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Devid Striesow
Devid Striesow (born 1 October 1973 in Bergen auf Rügen, East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 Oct ...
as Adam
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Angela Winkler
Angela Winkler (born 22 January 1944) is a German actress.
Life and career
Born in Templin, Winkler trained to be a medical technologist in Stuttgart. Interested in theater, she went to Munich, where she took acting classes with Ernst Fritz F ...
as Simon's mother Hildegard
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Annedore Kleist as Lotte
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Alexander Hörbe as Dirk
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Winnie Böwe
Winnie or Winny may refer to:
People
* Winnie (name), various persons with the given name
* David Winnie (born 1966), Scottish former association football player and manager
Entertainment
*Winnie-the-Pooh, a fictional teddy bear created by A. A. ...
as Petra
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Hans-Uwe Bauer
Hans-Uwe Bauer (born 26 August 1955) is a German actor. He appeared in more than ninety films since 1979.
Filmography Film
References
External links
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1955 births
Living people
German male film actors
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as Dr Wissmer
See also
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References
External links
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2010 films
2010 drama films
2010 LGBT-related films
2010s German-language films
Films set in Berlin
Films directed by Tom Tykwer
German LGBT-related films
Films with screenplays by Tom Tykwer
LGBT-related drama films
Male bisexuality in film
Films scored by Tom Tykwer
Films about threesomes
2010s German films
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