A 45-year-old nobody fights corporate death with dirtier tricks than his bosses. German 1969: capitalism eats its own.
A 45-year-old employee‘s future begins to falter. He rightly fears that he will fall victim to his new manager's rationalization measures. But he doesn't want to bow to his "fate" so easily: in the fight for his livelihood, he resorts to dirty means himself.
Acting
Bollmann's crumbling dignity—every twitch screams obsolescence.
Direction
Fechner turns office politics into existential horror, no blood required.
Director
Eberhard Fechner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made at the height of West Germany's 'Wirtschaftswunder,' this quietly subverted the era's prosperity myth—no wonder it vanished from canon discussion.
Eberhard Fechner later became legendary for TV documentaries; this rare fiction film shows his documentary eye for crushing institutional detail.
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