Your business partner's dead, his widow's suing you, and suddenly you're crushing on her? Yikes.
Gerrit Frings is facing ruin at the age of 34. After the end of his company and the suicide of his partner Markus, he is also sued by his widow Sandra. Allegedly, Gerrit owes Markus a lot of money. In reality, however, it was the other way around and his self-denial of his own situation was ultimately the reason for Markus' suicide. Gerrit's wife Claudia supports him in this difficult situation. But Gerrit falls in love with Sandra, of all people.
Acting
Mark Waschke's crumbling masculinity is painfully watchable.
Direction
Krohmer lets discomfort breathe without theatrical melodrama.
Director
Stefan Krohmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Berliner Schule' movement of realist German cinema, rejecting Hollywood redemption arcs for stubborn ambiguity.
The title 'Mitte 30' (Mid-30s) became shorthand in German film discourse for male protagonists who fail upward while everything collapses.
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