Film

The Bosom Friend

1997 · 1h · Documentary

IMDb

7.1

Main character of this movie is Rene Rupnik, a former math teacher. He is forty years old and lives together with his mother in a desolate block of flats. Ever since his early youth women with big breasts have fascinated him, because they symbolise a kind of earth mother to him. He has never had an especially close relationship with his own mother; she was too 'bony' for him. Object of Rene's fantasy is the actress Senta Berger, to him everything a woman should be. Standing by the blackboard and explaining the mathematical laws of sine and cosine ('sinus' is bosom in Latin), Rene sings the praises of the female curves and those of Santa Berger in particular. Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl let the former teacher speak freely about his obsessions and desires, intercutting his monologues with scenes from the protagonist's day-to-day life.

• Ulrich SeidlDirector · Writer
• Erich LacknerProducer
• Enzo BrandnerDirector of Photography
• Hans SelikovskyDirector of Photography
• Peter ZeitlingerDirector of Photography
• Jerzy PalaczDirector of Photography
• Walter Andreas ChristenEditor

Release date

June 3, 1997

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h

Genres

Documentary