Cinematography:
Wolfgang ThalerComposer:
Wolfgang SchloeglCast:
Karl Merkatz, Christine Ostermayer, Erni Mangold, Claudia Martini, Joseph Lorenz, Branko Samarovski, Susi Stach, Fritz Hörtenhuber, Martin Oberhauser (more)Plots(1)
Does luck have a use by date? Both thought that at eighty they have experienced everything until, like a bolt of lightening, Rosa and Bruno come together and immediately fall head over heels. There are two obstacles to their happiness though: Bruno’s marriage, which has long been routine, and Rosa’s illness; she has cancer and not long left to live. Despite the difficult circumstances, the two decide to breakaway – Bruno from his relationship and Rosa from her retirement home. Against the advice of carers, doctors and relatives, the pair moves into a new apartment together. Anfang 80 shows with a great deal of unequivocal humour how insensitively and sometimes desperately overburdened society reacts to love among the elderly. A film about people whose freedom to love is no longer granted and who prove beyond all doubt that nobody is too old for young love. (Zurich Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Karl Merkatz
Austria
Best movies:
Der Bockerer (1981)
Das ewige Lied (1997) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Christine Ostermayer
Austria
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Frühling (2011) (series)
Der Bulle von Tölz (1996) (series)
Erni Mangold
Austria
Best movies:
Before Sunrise (1995)
North Face (2008)
I Only Want You to Love Me (1976) (TV movie)
Claudia Martini
West Germany
Best movies:
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Dog Days (2001)
Rimini (2022)
Joseph Lorenz
Austria
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Die Bergretter (2009) (series)
Inga Lindström (2004) (series)
Branko Samarovski
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
North Face (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009)
Die Rebellion (1993) (TV movie)
Susi Stach
Austria
Best movies:
Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch! (2008)
Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing... (2012)
The Poll Diaries (2010)
Fritz Hörtenhuber
Austria
Best movies:
A Horse on the Balcony (2012)
Still Life (2011)
Martin Oberhauser
Austria
Best movies:
Breathing (2011)
Thank You for Bombing (2015)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Silvia Wohlmuth
Austria
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Born to Dance (2011) (TV movie)
Unter Umständen verliebt (2012) (TV movie)
Julia Jelinek
Austria
Best movies:
Grüningers Fall (2013)
Mein Fleisch und Blut (2016)
Rainer Luttenberger
Austria
Best movies:
Paradise: Hope (2013)
Wilhelm Iben
West Germany
Tanja Petrovsky
Austria
Best movies:
Models (1999)
Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017)
Anton Noori
Austria
Carola Pojer
Austria
Best movies:
Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing... (2012)
Cold Hell (2017)
Daniela Kong
Best movies:
Wild Mouse (2017)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Rubikon (2022)
Dagmar Kutzenberger
Austria
Best movies:
The Best of All Worlds (2017)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Lilly Schönauer (2006) (series)
Monika Finotti
Austria
Best movies:
Die Alpenklinik (2006) (TV movie)