A hypochondriac bachelor overhears his own death sentence—weeks before his wedding. What could go wrong?
Sometimes he feels a tugging in his shoulder, sometimes he thinks his kidneys are failing. Two weeks before his marriage to the beautiful Anne, junior architect Stefan seems to have gathered all the diseases in the world. Drawn from the stress of the wedding preparations, the hypochondriac is in top form. When he overhears a phone call from the family doctor, he mistakenly thinks he is a dead man. Now a substitute husband is needed for Anne.
Acting
Sebastian Bezzel's escalating physical panic is genuinely hilarious
Production
The boat wedding set piece is peak early-2000s Euro-comedy excess
Director
Walter Feistle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures a very specific era of German popular comedy—think 'Der Schuh des Manitu' energy but wedding-themed. The hypochondriac groom is basically a national archetype.
Director Walter Feistle mostly worked in television; this theatrical release was a rare venture, possibly explaining why it vanished into obscurity despite the cast.
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