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German and Italian sociocultural attitudes get roundly skewered in this satirical comedy from director Neele Leana Vollmar , adapted from a popular autobiographical work by Jan Weiler. Christian Ulmen stars as Jan, a German with plans marry his Italo-German fiancée, Maria (Mina Tander), in Campobello, Italy, the hometown of her father, Antonio (Lino Banfi). From the beginning, Jan loathed the idea of marriage in this unusual location, but begrudgingly agreed in order to keep Maria happy; once there, he instantly falls into fish-out-of-water mode amid the bronze-skinned, earthy Italians, and tension begins to build under the surface -- leading to increasingly outrageous events.