As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett. In it, Sennett describes the effect of the ‘new’ flexible capitalism on society’s shifting system of norms and values.
Alexander Kluge
Director
Lola69%
Heatwave62%
Thank You for Smoking71%
Nuremberg75%
Scandalous Sex69%
The Reader74%
Fifty Shades of Grey58%
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women71%
Perfect Addiction67%
Inner Workings78%
Das Leben der Anderen80%
Hands of Stone66%
Lovelace60%
Extract58%
Women in Love66%
Breathe74%
The Time Traveler's Wife69%
The Aftermath64%
Red Corner63%
Margin Call68%
