by Bhob Stewart
synopsis
Vivian Naefge directed this German romantic comedy that begins in Munich. Assertive waitress Eva (Aglaia Szyszkowitz) learns that her husband, impoverished painter Luis (Gedseon Burkhard), has run off to Venice with banker Charlotte Leonhard (Hilde van Meighem). She uses a water pistol to kidnap Charlotte's husband, lawyer Nick (Heino Ferch). With Nick and her two kids, she then drives toward Venice for a confrontation. Shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
characteristics
- Husband-and-wife
- Extramarital-affair
- Bank-teller
- Infidelity
- Kidnap
- Waitress
- Waiter/waitress
- Bank-personnel
- Bank-manager
- Adultery
- Adulterer
- Artist
- Bank-clerk
- Bank-guard
- Bank-executive
