He builds her a dream house. She runs. He destroys it. She returns. Men are exhausting.
In a traffic accident, the funky young radio presenter Christine meets Bruno, a concrete mixer driver thirty years her senior. They are taken with his simple, direct manner and a relationship develops between them that throws Christine's previous life plans out of kilter. But when Bruno buys a little house by the lake where he wants to spend his life with Christine, she gets scared and moves away with her previous boyfriend, a lawyer. Disappointed, Bruno destroys the house by the lake. But when he has finished, Christine is standing there.
Acting
Götz George turns concrete-mixer-driver into pure wounded dignity.
Direction
Peter Stripp lets silence do the screaming.
Director
Peter Stripp
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Götz George was already Germany's biggest TV star; this rare theatrical role let him play vulnerable instead of his usual tough guys. He reportedly took the role because the script 'hurt in the right way.'
The 1993 release landed during German reunification's romantic reckoning—East-West age gaps were real, and the film's older man/younger woman dynamic carried extra social weight about economic and emotional power.
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