Things are going wrong in the life of unsuccessful 30-year-old penny dreadful novelist Juliane. Her fiancé Jürgen has split up with her. She is rescued by her uncle Hans, who hires her as a temp for his dental practice in Berlin. Here she meets Büffel and Jean, a Swiss man with whom she immediately falls in love. Büffel falls in love with Juliane and the entanglements begin...
Acting
Christoph Waltz playing goofy romantic lead hits different.
Cinematography
Berlin glows golden like a postcard you didn't ask for.
Director
Stephan Meyer
Lisa Martinek
Juliane Thomas
Christoph Waltz
Frank 'Büffel' Arbogast
Tim Bergmann
Jean Berner
Hannelore Hoger
Antonia 'Toni' Brückner
Suzan Anbeh
Jacqueline
Pierre Besson
Jürgen Kolbe
Jan Fedder
Hans Thomas
Sonja Kirchberger
Dunja Domonte
Monika Peitsch
Julianes Mutter
Armin Rohde
Klaus Schilling
Antoine Monot Jr.
Veit Laufer
Liselotte Pulver
Herself
Charlotte Schwab
Jean's Mother
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Christoph Waltz's return to German cinema after years of television work, just two years before Tarantino rewrote his entire career trajectory.
The title plays on 'Zürcher Verlobung,' a classic 1957 German romance, but swaps the original's refined tone for chaotic early-aughts energy.
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