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.
Herbert Achternbusch
Director, Writer
Herbert Achternbusch
Teacher
Margarethe von Trotta
Barbara Gass
Wife
Ingrid Gailhofer
Kellnerin
Alois Hitzenbichler
Alois
Walter Sedlmayr
Reinhard Hauff
Judit Achternbusch
Heinz Braun
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