The Second Wife
Filmfest 2008
PT: Die Zweite Frau
OT: DIE ZWEITE FRAU
Germany 2007
(Original: German)
World Premiere
Director: Hans Steinbichler
Section: New German Cinema
Erwin Kobarek is 41 and still lives with his mother, with whom he operates a gas station in the country. He's never had a girlfriend. When his mother feels it's time for another woman in his life, she sends him to a marriage agency in Romania. Erwin actually does come back with a young Romanian woman, Irena Bobescu. Much to his mother's dismay, she is now the other woman in Erwin's life and sets something irreversible into motion: Erwin cutting the cord and finally growing up.
Cast: Matthias Brandt, Monica Bleibtreu, Maria Popistasu, Maia Morgenstern, Sven Pippig
Credits
Director: Hans Steinbichler