When I saw this movie, recently on DVD again, I realized once again what a great performance Stephan Taubert and his team did here. For the fact that he has very little money for his films and always tries to make the best out of it, he has succeeded with "Die Macht der Träume" his best film so far! Certainly not all pf them are trained actors like Marie Spinka in the lead role and Stephan has a lot of experience, but you can see clearly how much they are in the story and bring their characters to life.
Based on the true events of the actor Christopher Reeve, it is about a young man who has a serious riding accident at the peak of his career and then remains paraplegic. For budget reasons, of course, something had to be changed in the story, but the principle is the same. From then on, the young man, Phillip Herzog, with the help of his wife Katharina (Marie Rothe) and his daughter Lea (Ivette Große), struggles to be able to walk again when the young Emilia (Marie Spinka) enters her life and to get some things moving that no one had previously anticipated.
Of all the films that Stephan has filmed so far, this is his best work, great actors, lovingly and strongly staged. It is a pity that his films are not better known.
