The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
Acting
Katja Riemann owns every scene she's in
Costume
Drag looks that aged weirdly well
Writing
Script walks a tightrope, mostly doesn't fall
Director
Sönke Wortmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Germany's highest-grossing film of 1994—audiences were starving for mainstream LGBTQ+ stories, even clumsy ones.
Til Schweiger hated how big this made him; he spent years trying to be taken seriously as an action star instead.
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