Jörg Pibal

Be careful if you meet a martial arts star high up in the mountains.

A young couple on a gloomy quest to find each other, trapped in a confined space, in a car, on a winter trip to a vacation destination that is supposed to give their relationship a new kick. Silence and trivialities prevail in this standstill of the relationship. Only the woman's transformation in a gas station restroom from a conservative woman dominated by him to a self-confident and lascivious hitchhiker brings the actual desires and passions of the two to light.

Is it Vienna, or is it not?

Does luck have a use by date? Both thought that at eighty they have experienced everything until, like a bolt of lightening, Rosa and Bruno come together and immediately fall head over heels. There are two obstacles to their happiness though: Bruno’s marriage, which has long been routine, and Rosa’s illness; she has cancer and not long left to live. Despite the difficult circumstances, the two decide to breakaway – Bruno from his relationship and Rosa from her retirement home. Against the advice of carers, doctors and relatives, the pair moves into a new apartment together. ANFANG 80 shows with a great deal of unequivocal humour how insensitively and sometimes desperately overburdened society reacts to love among the elderly.

Welcome to purgatory. Where will your journey take you?

The Tuscany-based painter and writer Eva Hesse (born 1943) talks about her life, about her family and her attitude towards the personality and work of her famous grandfather Hermann Hesse.

Nothing can stop you when you want to go home.

Those were tough times.