Cinematography:
Andreas KöhlerCast:
Daniela Wutte, Katharina Palm, Christoph Jacobi, Kirstin Hesse, Antje Widdra, Guido Broscheit, Herbert Schäfer, Kerstin Kramer, Hans-Joachim Heist, Piet Fuchs, Daniela Stanik, Markus Ertelt (more)Plots(1)
Myriam lives a sheltered existence in a small Catholic town on the Lower Rhine. She is married to Bernd Mölders, an ambitious young mayor, and they have just moved into a new house together. They love each other and everything in their life seems to be just perfect.
And then she finds out by accident that Bernd makes regular trips to a brothel in neighbouring Holland. There is no one with whom she can discuss this – least of all her husband. And what would she say to him anyway? What would be the point of making a scene? That wouldn't change his desire for prostitutes. And so she decides to try to understand his fascination by going to a brothel herself and working there in secret. Myriam finds herself in a strange twilight world where she soon feels more and more at home. In a sudden rush she discovers her own sexuality, a side of her she can't live out with Bernd, because he wants her to stay the way she always was. And so Myriam persists in her double life – not realising that she's becoming addicted to a realm of illusion.
(Berlinale)
Cast
Daniela Wutte
Germany
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Das Glück kommt unverhofft (2010) (TV movie)
Siegfried (2005)
Katharina Palm
East Germany
Best movies:
Do Fish Do It? (2002)
The Elementary Particles (2006)
Agnes and His Brothers (2004)
Christoph Jacobi
West Germany
Best movies:
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (2022)
Kirstin Hesse
West Germany
Best movies:
Antje Widdra
East Germany
Best movies:
Destination: Freedom (2010) (TV movie)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Guido Broscheit
West Germany
Best movies:
380.000 Volt – Der große Stromausfall (2010) (TV movie)
Zurück zum Glück (2010) (TV movie)
Die Hitzewelle - Keiner kann entkommen (2008) (TV movie)
Herbert Schäfer
West Germany
Best movies:
Die Todesgrippe von Köln (1999) (TV movie)
Kerstin Kramer
West Germany
Best movies:
Not My Day (2014)
Hans-Joachim Heist
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Pfarrer Braun (2003) (series)
Piet Fuchs
West Germany
Best movies:
Barefoot (2005)
Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (2006) (TV movie)
Mein Freund aus Faro (2008)
Markus Ertelt
West Germany
Best movies:
13 Minutes (2015)
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Markus Andreas Klauk
West Germany
Best movies:
Der letzte Mentsch (2014)
The Experiment (2001)
Die Eifelpraxis (2016) (series)
Dominik Klingberg
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Klaus Prangenberg
Best movies:
Dreamboy macht Frauen glücklich (1999) (TV movie)