Trauma surgeon Thomas Reiter voluntarily withdraws into a secure institution because he no longer wants to face everyday life. He solves his problems in his imagination – a Western fantasy. A priest is commissioned by his worried parents to bring their son back to reality. When Thomas invites him to follow him into his Western world, the priest realizes that this escape from reality is not without its fascination...
Direction
Sicheritz blends genres with gleeful Austrian chaos
Writing
Script toys with reality until you can't tell the saloon from the sanitarium
Director
Harald Sicheritz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Austrian genre mashup that predates the 'serious man has fantasy escape' trope popularized by films like A Beautiful Mind.
John Phillip Law—Barbarella's Pygar himself—appears as one of the imaginary pursuers, linking this to 1960s Euro-cult cinema.
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