Anna, an actress, unexpectedly loses her job at a small German town theatre. She can't expect much help from the local employment agency – but as it so happens, there is an administrator at the agency who, while not very militant, is enthusiastic about theatre. Anna takes on the job of teaching drama to eight long-term unemployed people. Initially, none of them are particularly enthusiastic about it, nor are they exalted about the drama “Antigone”, which Anna wants to rehearse with them. But then the sceptical and difficult individuals manage to draw together and form a collective after all, giving all of them renewed hope.
Told with much compassion for its characters, this tragicomedy makes a humorous plea for solidarity and a collective restoration of lost self-respect.
Director: Oliver Haffner, 102 min, English subtitles
