A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife and mother of three children, Elisabeth is the perfect career woman and Maria uses already in their third marriage sex appeal to get ahead in life. But one day it turns out that the three except their friendship still connects another great thing in common: They are all tired of her life as a wife. And so begins the story of a rabenscharzen comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulties to achieve this. The only question is: How are they merely their husbands going on?
Acting
Muti, Mattes, and Flint's deliciously unhinged trio chemistry
Direction
Hormann's sharp feminist edge under frothy comedy
Costume
Peak 90s power-wife glamour and suburban desperation
Director
Sherry Hormann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released when German cinema was rediscovering female-led genre films, Hormann's work sits between Fassbinder's domestic cruelty and later Tarantino-esque black comedy.
Eva Mattes famously improvised Molly's dinner-table meltdown scene, which Hormann kept despite producers wanting a 'prettier' take.
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