The idea sounds fun: A husband, frolicking around with a co-worker, finds out that his wife has been untrue, too. Unfortunately, she dies right after the confession. Herbert Knaup is rather convincing as the desperate husband, trying to find out who his rival was (of course, her unfaithfulness is MUCH worse than his, mostly because he never noticed). It is also fun to watch the arrival of Ben Becker as the said rival, a Hamburg pimp in money troubles. But from then on, the screenwriter (who is also the director, and not unexperienced in both métiers) doesn't seem to trust his own ideas any more. What proceeds as a gripping yet highly hilarious business transaction between the two rivals turns out to be nothing more than a dream, the reality being rather weak compared to it. The ending gets back to gripping, but at that point one always expects the protagonist to wake up again. So, was the end really the end or just another nightmare? Either way, it was rather boring. Sad, because the actors were fun to watch and would have deserved a better conclusion.
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