Sierra Leone

After spending three years doing field installation work in West Africa, Fred returns home to his old neighbourhood, an industrial region on the outskirts of a major city. He is filled with confidence and optimism for a new start. He has brought home with him a pile of money that he made in Africa. But he never wrote to his wife Rita. He only wired her a money transfer every month. In the meantime, Rita has a new life that she now shares with a GI. Fred rents a room in the "Royal", a sleazy hotel. There, he meets Alma, who takes care of the rooms and the guests and who is being kept by her sugar daddy - the aging hotel director. A passionate encounter with his old girlfriend Vera, who had high hopes for the two of them at some earlier time, dissipates into a brief carnal episode

Christian Redl

Fred

Rita Russek

Vera

Ann-Gisel Glass

Alma

Constanze Engelbrecht

Rita

Janette Rauch

Kinderschwester

Michael Schönborn

Wolf

Rainer Pigulla

Werkstattmeister

• Uwe SchraderDirector

Release date

September 11, 1987

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 27m

Genres

Drama