East German family inherits a factory and learns capitalism from a condom dealer. What could go wrong?
Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons unfortunately have no idea. Help comes in the guise of adventurer and condoms dealer Charlie, who works as a "business consultant" and gives Udo a Rock & Roll crash course in capitalism - with unsurpassed success.
Acting
Wolfgang Stumph's desperate everyman energy carries the whole thing
Writing
Condem dealer as business consultant is unhinged comic genius
Director
Wolfgang Büld
Claudia Schmutzler
Jacqueline
Marie Gruber
Rita Struutz
Wolfgang Stumph
Udo Struutz
Gerit Kling
Diana
Astrid Boner
Businesswoman
Rolf Zacher
Charlie
Uwe Friedrichsen
Mayor Kuhn
Jochen Busse
Director
Günter Junghans
Schulz
Detlef Rothe
Müller
Günter Schubert
Meier
Dietmar Schönherr
Gustav Hohenstein
Gunther Emmerlich
Wagner's Siegfried
Wolfgang Lippert
Men's Outfitter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released just two years after reunification, this captures genuine East German anxiety about being swallowed by Western capitalism—wrapped in condom jokes.
The Trabant became reunification's unlikely icon: this sequel leans hard into Ostalgie before the term even existed, making it a fascinating time capsule.
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