At 41, Erwin Kobarek still lives with his mother, with whom he runs a petrol station in the countryside. A relationship has not yet materialized for Erwin. When his mother senses that her son needs a wife, she sends Erwin to a marriage agency in Romania. And indeed, Erwin returns with a young Romanian woman, Irina Bobescu. She sets something irreversible in motion in him: the detachment from his mother and the moulting from boy to belated man.
Matthias Brandt
Erwin Kobarek
Monica Bleibtreu
Frau Kobarek
Maria Popistașu
Irina
Maia Morgenstern
Bogdana
Sven Pippig
Karl
Selena Alexandru
Selena
Markus Böker
Arzt
Maximilian Löwenstein
Bankangestellter
Gabriel Raab
Irinas Tanzpartner
At 41, Erwin Kobarek still lives with his mother, with whom he runs a petrol station in the countryside. A relationship has not yet materialized for Erwin. When his mother senses that her son needs a wife, she sends Erwin to a marriage agency in Romania. And indeed, Erwin returns with a young Romanian woman, Irina Bobescu. She sets something irreversible in motion in him: the detachment from his mother and the moulting from boy to belated man.
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