Julius Armbrust is in his mid-30s, he’s a packaging designer, married with two children and has everything he could wish for: money, success, his family, his affairs. On his 12th wedding anniversary, he finds out that his wife Paula has a lover: Stefan. Julius’ world falls apart. He pretends to go away to a conference, but in fact remains in town and does not let Paula and Stefan out of his sight. Stefan throws his old girlfriend out of the flat.
Julius has a plan. He applies for the vacant room, and Stefan, not knowing who this strange guy in the expensive suit really is, agrees to share his flat with him. Julius is determined to get to know Stefan and his exotic surroundings. When Stefan admits to him in a drunken stupor that perhaps he would not mind having money and a career and power after all, Julius knows what he has to do: Stefan becomes more and more of what Julius once was. Paula loses interest in this “new” Stefan, who is suddenly so strangely like her own husband. Julius returns home as the winner. Or maybe not?
Men
Doris Dörrie
Born in Hannover in 1955. Studied Drama, psychology and semiotics in the United States, later student at the Munich HFF. Professor at the HFF, film and opera director, writer.
1978 DER ERSTE WALZER, Spielfilm HOF 1978
1980 KATHARINA EISELT, Dokumentarfilm
1981 VON ROMANTIK KEINE SPUR, Dokumentarfilm
DAZWISCHEN, Fernsehspiel HOF 1978
1983 MITTEN INS HERZ, Spielfilm HOF 1983 und 2006
1984 IM INNEREN DES WALS, Spielfilm
1985 MÄNNER, Spielfilm HOF 1985 und 2016
1986 PARADIES, Spielfilm HOF 1986
1988 ME AND HIM/ICH UND ER, Spielfilm
1989 GELD, Spielfilm
1991 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TÜRKE! Spielfilm HOF 1991
1994 KEINER LIEBT MICH, Spielfilm
1998 BIN ICH SCHÖN, Spielfilm
1999 ´ ERLEUCHTUNG GARANTIERT, Spielfilm HOF 1999
2002 NACKT, Spielfilm
2005 DER FISCHER UND SEINE FRAU, Spielfilm
2006 HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE, Dokumentation
2008 Kirschblüten – Hanami, Spielfilm
2010 Die Friseuse, Spielfilm
2012 GLÜCK, Spielfilm
2014 ALLES INKLUSIVE, Spielfilm
DIESES SCHÖNE SCHEISSLEBEN, Dokumentarfilm
2016 GRÜSSE AUS FUKUSHIMA, Spielfilm