When Chernobyl blows and Bobby Ewing dies, a German commune learns cosmic irony hits different naked.
1986 - The protest movement against the construction of the nuclear power plant in Brokdorf is on its last legs. Only one rural commune remains: the "Alternative Wohnkollektiv Regenbogen". For them, it could go on and on with endless consensus discussions, shearing sheep and naked communal bathing. One day, the lowland communards are joined by two city dwellers, Hanne and her son Niels. While Hanne gets used to scream therapy and raising vegetables surprisingly quickly - and even more quickly to the tantra games with commune guru Peter - Niels has less and less desire for the dogmatic commune rules. Out of defiance, he joins the violent nuclear power plant resistance, thus upsetting the tranquil chaos of the commune. The big bang, however, comes when a reactor explodes in distant Chernobyl. Exactly on the day Bobby Ewing dies, the petroleum prince from "Dallas" and series favorite of the commune.
Acting
Gabriela Maria Schmeide commits HARD to tantra-guru seduction scenes.
Production
Period-perfect Schleswig-Holstein commune aesthetic — every crocheted blanket authentic.
Writing
The Bobby Ewing/Chernobyl parallel is genuinely unhinged genius.
Director
Lars Jessen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Brokdorf protests were West Germany's defining anti-nuclear moment; this commune's pathetic irrelevance is the point.
Bobby Ewing's 'death' in Dallas was actually a dream season later — the commune never even got closure.
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