Paul Winkelmann is the CEO of a successful business in Hamburg that he took over after the death of his father eight years ago. But he is still strongly dominated by his 78 year old mother who cares for him as a child, and who cannot understand why he took an apartment on his own after all these years. The real "problem" starts when Paul gets to know psychologist Margarethe Tietze whose relationship to her parents is also not so easy after all.
Acting
Vicco von Bülow's porcelain fragility as man-child Paul
Direction
Von Bülow directs himself into glorious psychological chaos
Writing
Every line cuts like passive-aggressive surgical steel
Director
Vicco von Bülow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vicco von Bülow (Loriot) was Germany's beloved absurdist; this rare directorial effort weaponizes his usual gentle humor into something genuinely uncomfortable.
The title 'Ödipussi' is pure Loriot wordplay — translating roughly to 'Oedipussy,' which no distributor dared use. Evelyn Hamann was his decades-long comedic partner, their chemistry here deliberately anti-romantic.
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