Credited cast: | |||
Heike Makatsch | ... | Maja | |
Christiane Paul | ... | Cora | |
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Andrea Eckert | ... | Anna |
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Rüdiger Hacker | ... | Coras Vater |
Kathrin Ackermann | ... | Coras Mutter | |
Marquard Bohm | ... | Majas Vater | |
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Stephan Luca | ... | Don (as Stephan Hornung) |
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Tim Egloff | ... | Detlef |
Michael Maertens | ... | Jonas | |
Helmfried von Lüttichau | ... | Mario | |
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Helmut Berger | ... | Henning |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Alberto Fortuzzi | ||
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Giuliano Ghiselli | ||
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Ferdinand Hinterleitner | ... | Bela |
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Leonhardt Hinterleitner | ... | Bela |
Two beautiful young women kill men in a villa in Tuscany: Maya and Cora have been friends since childhood. Maya has an alcoholic artist father who deserted the family, a mentally disturbed mother and a violent brother, Carlo. Cora is from a wealthy middle-class family. Cora helps Maya to poison Carlo's friend Detlef, who is threatening to blackmail her. They then kill Carlo when he tries to rape Cora. Cora's family takes Maya in, and a happy time begins for her, particularly when they spend the summer in Italy. Written by ebroadcast.com.au
I really wonder sometimes why my fellow Germans don't know how to make movies.
Many years, I credited to a lack of acting talent. But that seems not to be the case - if not for stunning Christiane Paul, this movie would have been even more boring and unimportant.
So, is it a lack of screenplay writers? Of good directors? Or do we Germans simply have no other topic to talk about but the eternal struggle between man and woman? (At least in this instance, the optional gay character was delightfully missing...)
This movie centers on female power, on friendship above any romantic relationship. That is not bad in the first place. But almost everything the characters are doing, from the first accidental kill to cold-blooded murder, goes unpunished, yes there isn't even any kind of conflict with, let's say, police, law, conscience...
So what is the message of this movie? Stay single and kill every man who dares to get close to you?
I don't know, but I don't care for German movies anyway. Even those with Christiane Paul. And her character would probably kill me for calling her beautiful... :-)