An invitation to an old childhood friend's 40th birthday throws the Baumgartners' hitherto happy life into disarray and makes them question their previous concept of life. Marie and Markus Baumgartner are a picture-book couple. But everyday working life and two children make it hard for the couple to catch their breath. An invitation to the 40th birthday of Marie's former best friend from school, Heike, including a long weekend, comes at just the right time. Without further ado, the Baumgartners hire Grandpa Walter as a babysitter and travel to Marie's old Bavarian home. The surprise on the spot is huge: Heike has achieved everything the two friends had once dreamed of. The chubby duckling has become a beautiful swan and she is living her dream job as a photographer. She lives in a dream house by the lake with her smart husband Hans.
Director Dirk Regel staged a very romantic love story, a warm-hearted story of love and trust, of old dreams and the courage to give a lucky chance a second chance against the picturesque backdrop of Verona. The main roles of the prevented dream couple are best filled with Katharina Böhm and Christoph M. Ohrt. Other roles include Theresa Scholze, Ulrike C. Tscharre and Mirko Lang.
After a cunning escape from the boarding school, Oliver and Peter find their way to the back parts of Gastein Valley, where they fall into the hands of the paranoid Professor Niedlich. He gives the boys compulsory lessons, far worse than at school.
A wealthy couple in early retirement move into a bungalow in a park-like residential complex and are all set for a fulfilling retirement. Their happiness could be perfect if the workmen hadn't caused a tiny leak in the roof, which would require repeated repairs. What initially appears to be a ridiculous repair takes on threatening proportions and requires ever greater construction work.
Veronika Faber is a German stage and screen actress. She attended Hertha Genzmer's Drama School Genzmer and played from 1965 to 1969 at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main, at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. She made her feature film debut in 1970.
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