Spieler

GER 1990
Director: Dominik Graf
Cast: Peter Lohmeyer, Anica Dobra, Hansa Czypionka, Adele Neuhauser, Claus-Dieter Reents

111 Min. | OmeU

Retrospektive

With »The Gamblers«, his playful and unruly ode to the uncompromising nature of love, he initiated a wave of German romantic comedies that defined German cinema in the 1990s. But this film as well has been Dominik Graf und Gätz George am Set von Die Katze Directing
nothing more than a crack. Graf‘s vision of love that can only exist if it is accompanied by absolute freedom was an anarchistic attack on the very capitalist values and conservative ideas that German romantic comedies turned into cemented film images only a short time later.