Sachertorte

Karl from Berlin meets Nini from Vienna.

He looses her phone number and desides moving to Austria to try and find her.

Karl meets a lot of new friends and learns about friendship and love.

Sachertorte which is a famous chocolate cake from Vienna and the title of this absolute gem of a movie.

This German film is bound to be a classic along side, Notting Hill, Love Actually and Serendipity.

Top notch acting all around, beautiful scener and lots of laughs and tears here.

This is simply a sweet little movie you cannot miss.

A superb romcom for your date night.

The world needs movies like this.

Highly recommend.

This story had elements of Cinema Paradiso mixed with Moonstruck, two of my favorite films, and it had me smiling, laughing and engaged from the start. A beautiful story with great performances from, not only the leads, but the entire supporting cast. There were so many interesting characters, from the staff at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, to the quirky roommates, but the two leads, Max Hubacher and Maeve Metelka, were just outstanding. The ending was a little predictable pretty early on but the ride getting there was pure cinematic joy. I love finding these treasures like Sachertorte in the day and age of comic book mayhem on every screen.

More than twenty years ago Fatih Akin created one of the best Rom-Com Road-Movie combination ever made: "Im Juli". A young man meets the love of his life, only to loose her a few hours later. So, he follows her through a plethora of perils but with the help of a girl he accidentally meets, discovers the true meaning of love. "Sachertorte" is merely the same movie, however instead of being shot at, nearly drowning or ending up in jail, the protagonist here has to endure the hospitality of the couches in Café Sacher for a hundred something days.

So, this one is neither an homage to its spiritual influence nor its namesake cake the "Sachertorte". While the cake excels by not being to sweet, the movie reeks of artificial sweetener.

All in all, its watchable, but go see "Im Juli" instead to see what really could be baked out of these ingredients.

Who would have thought, that after all these years it is still possible to still create such a witty, heartbreaking and yet total believable romance? At the same time the movie manages to create a Real feel of how it is to live in Vienna and/or visit Vienna and enjoy its famous places. For example: Whoever had the chance to have a Sachertorte and coffee in the hotel Sacher will concede, that the movie has captured it all. The setting is marvelous, the characters are totally believable and, you will feel a heart warming glow and perhaps relive the memory of how it is or how it was to be in love. Highly recommended, take the chance and enjoy.

Sachertorte is a unique diamond of a romantic film with Vienna as a beautiful backdrop. I found the performance of the main actors very charming. I've watched the film several times and I always shed tears at the ending because it reminds me of the exact circumstances in which my wife and I met. Just when I thought "sachertorte" was the best dessert there was, friendship and time made me realize that I was an "apple strudel" kind of guy. I say this both figuratively and literally, because apple strudel is my favorite dessert! Now after 25 years of blissful marriage and two beautiful children, our love continues to grow every day.