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Das Andechser Gefühl (1975)

Das Andechser Gefühl (1975)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 1975, April 18
Directors: Herbert Achternbusch
Countries: Germany
Production: Neue Bioskop Film
Cast: Alois Hitzenbichler, Barbara Gass, Ingrid Gailhofer

Overview:

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neglected, the teaching duties he has shirked, and his doomed efforts at winning tenure from school officials. Only a dream from the past-the memory of a former liaison with a film star with whom he shared "the Andechs feeling, a feeling that we are not alone" - provides sustenance. Despite an unexpected series of events, longing in Achternbusch's world ultimately remains stronger than fulfilment and thirst better than beer.