Georg Sahl, one of the last major newspaper publishers with liberal-conservative quality standards, is offered the position of Federal President by the Mayor of Frankfurt. His wife Franziska, a successful divorce lawyer, is initially not very happy about the fact that she will soon only be representing him as "First Lady". When Georg's young lover Nina is seriously injured after an argument, it is not only his career that is in danger...
Acting
Brandt and von Borsody's delicious marital warfare.
Direction
Huntgeburth's wry eye for institutional hypocrisy.
Director
Hermine Huntgeburth
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The film satirizes Germany's 2010-2017 Federal Presidency crisis era, when two presidents resigned over scandal.
Hermine Huntgeburth was already a veteran of literary adaptations; this rare original screenplay let her cut loose with pure nastiness.
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