The Total Family

Release Date: 1981-10-16

Overview: Baron Childerich III of Bartenbruch considers himself to be a descendant of the Merovingian dynasty and he has drawn up a chart of marriages and adoptions which show that he is his own father, grandfather, father-in-law, and son-in-law. He aims at achieving the "total family" based on one man. He persuades his french relative, Pippin, to help him. But the latter lets him down and breaks up the family... Among those who belong to the (surrounding) world of the Baron are Dr. Döblinger, a writer, who has formed a band of muggers and Professor Horn, a psychiatrist, who quiets his patients by leading them on nose rings and beating them up... Family satire with numerous personal and literary allusions based on the novel of the Austrian writer, Heimito von Doderer.

Rating: 0 / 10

Cast

Armin Akermann

as Baron Childerich III, Freiherr von Bartenbruch

John D. Weiler

as Pippin

Franz West

as Prof. Horn

Valie Export

as Sister Helga

Wendy Nagler

as Ulrike, Childerich´s fiancee