The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper and dreams of escaping to an island and leaving everything behind. His marriage is in crisis. And on the day of his divorce, he meets a new woman in a rear-end collision, who has also just been divorced and with whom he plunges headlong into a new relationship.
Acting
Towje Kleiner's manic desperation is physically exhausting to watch.
Direction
Dietl's Munich-specific satire that barely translates outside Bavaria.
Director
Helmut Dietl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dietl later became the king of German TV comedy with 'Monaco Franze'; this is his raw prototype.
Barbara Valentin was Fassbinder's muse; her casting adds meta-layer of decadent escape-artist energy.
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