Das Andechser Gefühl

Release Date: 1975-04-18

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.

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

Herbert Achternbusch

as Teacher

Margarethe von Trotta

as

Barbara Gass

as Wife

Ingrid Gailhofer

as Kellnerin

Alois Hitzenbichler

as Alois