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Overview
An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neglected, the teaching duties he has shirked, and his doomed efforts at winning tenure from school officials. Only a dream from the past-the memory of a former liaison with a film star with whom he shared "the Andechs feeling, a feeling that we are not alone" - provides sustenance. Despite an unexpected series of events, longing in Achternbusch's world ultimately remains stronger than fulfilment and thirst better than beer.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 18, 1975
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Neue Bioskop Film
- Cast
- Herbert Achternbusch,Judit Achternbusch,Heinz Braun,Alois Hitzenbichler,Margarethe von Trotta,Reinhard Hauff,Barbara Gass,Ingrid Gailhofer,Walter Sedlmayr
- Director
- Herbert Achternbusch
- Writer
- Herbert Achternbusch
- Producer
- Eberhard Junkersdorf
- Cinematography
- Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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