- East Berlin 1988 : Marco Kaiser does not work as it should. The 18 year old rebelling against parents and the system. That he , the son of the privileges profits Jürgen Kaiser as a high-ranking Stasi officer in East Germany enjoys holds not challenge them from the Party line father always him. When he and his new girlf…
- In the present film, Helmut Berger again plays Ludwig. In the story, Ludwig has travelled from Munich to Switzerland with a handsome actor (Max Tidof) who is part of his personal entourage, in order to hear him recite Schiller's "William Tell" in an appropriate setting. Unfortunately, the recitation is a disa…
- Georg Kaiser decribes in his expressionist theater play the attempt of a bank cashier to escape his middle class daily life. Director Karlheinz Martin's adaptation transfers Kaiser's play into an expressionist film of radical stylization. The German film industry was so irritated by the result that the film never found…