How About Adolf?

How About Adolf?

2DCS/ES12
Director:Sönke Wortmann
Cast:Christoph Maria Herbst, Florian David Fitz, Caroline Peters, Justus von Dohnányi
Premiere:16. October 2019
Length:91 minutes
Genre:Comedy

Director: Sönke Wortmann  •  Cast: Christoph Maria Herbst, Florian David Fitz, Caroline Peters, Justus von Dohnányi, Janine Uhse, Iris Berben

The bourgeois couple Stephan and Elisabeth has invited Elisabeth's brother Thomas and his pregnant partner Anna as well as their distinguished friend René for dinner. The convivial evening with good food and fine wines takes an unexpected turn, when Thomas and Anna announce that they want to name their son Adolf. The hosts and René are rendered speechless and soon a fierce argument erupts that gradually spirals out of control. Suppressed conflicts, sins of their youth and family secrets are used as weapons in a debate about the appropriateness of a name that turns into a general reckoning where nothing is taboo anymore.

Length: 91 min

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 16. October 2019

Country of origin:

  • Germany

Director: Sönke Wortmann  •  Cast: Christoph Maria Herbst, Florian David Fitz, Caroline Peters, Justus von Dohnányi, Janine Uhse, Iris Berben

The bourgeois couple Stephan and Elisabeth has invited Elisabeth's brother Thomas and his pregnant partner Anna as well as their distinguished friend René for dinner. The convivial evening with good food and fine wines takes an unexpected turn, when Thomas and Anna announce that they want to name their son Adolf. The hosts and René are rendered speechless and soon a fierce argument erupts that gradually spirals out of control. Suppressed conflicts, sins of their youth and family secrets are used as weapons in a debate about the appropriateness of a name that turns into a general reckoning where nothing is taboo anymore.

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 16. October 2019

Country of origin:

  • Germany