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Harald Warmbrunn | ... |
Jürgen
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Karl-Fred Müller | ... |
Manfred
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Ursula Schucht | ... |
Jürgen's Wife
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Hannelore Schubert | ... |
Manfred's Wife
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Erwin Meinicke | ... |
Skatspieler
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Hans Hohmann | ... |
Skatspieler
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Siegfried Zimmermann | ... |
Skatspieler
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Maik Gustävel | ... |
Automaten-Monteur
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Annegret Fritz | ... |
Wirtin
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Wolfgang Boos | ... |
Gatekeeper
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Werner Boche | ... |
Rasenpfleger
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Dora Solter | ... |
Dame
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Anna Spengler | ... |
Dame
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Erika Kirchhof | ... |
Dame
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Schultze is a retired lignite miner living in an East German village and a passionate Polka musician on his accordion. One night he listens to a Zydeco tune in the radio, which changes his taste of music radically. Notwithstanding his complete ignorance of the English language he starts a trip into the heart of the Zydeco; to Louisana. Written by Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
First things first: You will need a lot of patience while watching "Schultze gets the blues". There are no dramatic scenes, no sensational turns or something that blows you out of your seat. Instead, the film develops slowly, working merely with pictures than with dialogues. And this is what it's all about: the boredom of retirement, the concealed longing for something new and the desperate hope of getting the "blues". Schultze, the main actor,tries to seek it by playing a tune he heard on the radio on his accordion, which leads him from Sachsen-Anhalt (in the former East Germany, DDR) to a music festival in Texas. This film is definitely worth watching, although it won't satisfy your desire for action or a surprising plot.