I've Never Been Happier
Director: Alexander Adolph, colour, 94 min., 2009
Frank Knöpfel tries to give the beautiful customer of a boutique a coat that she liked but doesn't want to afford as a present, but of course uses a credit card that doesn't belong to him. The police are informed, and since it was not the first time, Frank gets two years in prison. When they are served, he goes to see his brother Peter, who offers to live with him. With the help of the probation officer, Frank gets a job in a cleaning crew. By chance he meets the customer from the boutique again, to whom his insistence made an impression. She works under the name Tanja as a prostitute for Fritzi, the charming and brutal madam. Frank again makes an impression on her by rejecting the offered sex and giving Tanja a chain of blue stones instead. Unfortunately, the chain belongs to his sister-in-law Marie, but Fritzi senses trouble with a customer in love and sends off her Loddel, who accidentally beat Peter up brutally. Peter works in advertising for Schlickenrieder, the managing director of a politically liberal group. Frank now takes over the task of satisfying Schlickenrieder, which he does very well by imposture. At the same time, he gains prepayments for a penthouse apartment that doesn't belong to him and whose owner, an internationally active human rights activist, is in Russia, and so he collects the money to buy out Tanja, who is supposedly highly indebted to Fritzi, but impresses the Loddel so much with his knowledge of Russian that they return the money to him assuming he belongs to the Russian mafia. Standing on the terrace of the penthouse, Frank and Tanja, whose real name is Hannelore, forge plans for the future and Frank speaks the title line of the film, while the police are already approaching downstairs.
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