Director: Nicolas Wackerbarth, colour, 91 min., 2016/17
Vera wants to make a remake of Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, but wants the role of Karin Timm (played, in Fassbinder's film, by Hanna Schygulla) to be taken by a man. She finds choosing a lead actress difficult as, unsuccessfully, she tests one candidate after another. Gerwin, a failed actor, has taken on the task of audition reader, initially without any prospect of landing a part in the film. Soon, however, he wants more than just the part of a stooge and begins scheming.
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