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An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood sweetheart finds his emotions unexpectedly stirred when he falls for a pretty waitress from a nearby town.
Direction
Grisebach's documentary realism makes fiction feel like stolen life.
Acting
Müller's face does what his character cannot: actually emote.

Director
Valeska Grisebach
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