Richard Mertens, a successful magazine editor with a cold, empty marriage to Lucy, seeks excitement through an affair with younger colleague Eva. Yet his need for status traps him in superficiality, undermining genuine connection. A legal battle with old friend Ferrow, won through perjury, reveals Mertens’s moral emptiness, shattering his relationship with Eva. Alone, he finds solace only in listening to bartender Brigitte.

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Cast

Karl Michael Vogler

Richard Mertens

Pascale Audret

Eva

Françoise Prévost

Lucy

Marisa Mell

Brigitte

Hellmut Lange

Ferrow

Hans Caninenberg

Alfred von Xanten

Sigfrit Steiner

Kriminalinspektor Scherbl

Rosemarie Fendel

Margot