An old man and a dreamer walk into a bar—no, seriously, this East German odd couple will wreck your heart gently.
"Je oller, je doller", say the roommates of pensioner Otto Panke, because they often see him together with the young Manuela, who likes to invent "dream jobs" for her life and dreams of an "exclusive life". But for Otto, the noticeable sympathy for the pretty, quite professional woman is simply "soul kinship". And since both have an extremely large degree of imagination, they are special, extraordinary - to a certain extent "spider fix"! The problem of the two is that they often get into tricky situations that threaten to get messy and they get a lot of problems. But as is the case with good stories: in the end, everything aims at a happy happy end...
Acting
Karin Düwel's Manuela sells impossible optimism like currency.
Writing
Hoelzke's script dances around censorship with pure imagination.
Director
Hubert Hoelzke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DEFA comedies like this walked a tightrope—whimsy was one way to critique socialist reality without getting banned.
Director Hoelzke allegedly rewrote the ending three times to satisfy censors who found the original 'too melancholic.'
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