Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.

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Cast

Christoph Waltz

Herbert Sobieski

Sandra Cervik

Rita Rosner

Georg Trenkwitz

Hans

Inge Rosenberg

Thekla Sobieski

Wolfgang Böck

Joe Czerny

Adi Hirschal

Alois "Luis" Hummel

Karl Markovics

Schurl

Sandra Kreisler

Mrs. Menzel

Claudia Martini

Doris

Florentin Groll

Briefträger

Peter Faerber

Chefarzt

Silvia Fenz

Greißlerin