Ein Schiff wird kommen

A curious film in which contemporary and occasionally harrowing realism is mixed with a dreamy kind of fantasy. A début film that was not easy to produce, with a large number of characters and locations. Very different worlds meet, as do several cinematographic genres.The protagonist is Bruno (Karl Kranzkowski), who is in his fifties. Once he was a surgeon in the GDR, but after a clumsy clash with the regime, he is now a bus driver in the New Germany. Not stupid, but rather unworldly, Bruno allows his mother to persuade him to buy a wife from an agency. Through a misunderstanding, he thinks that the prostitute Anita (Christina Grosse) is his fiancée, but it becomes apparent that this women is at warl with the agency, which turns out to be a criminal front. Anita has a job on the side as courier and smuggles children across the border in suitcases. A suitcase with a Vietnamese boy and a quantity of cocaine has disappeared. At that point, this mixture of gangster thriller, political parody, children’s fantasy film and love drama really comes to life.Débutante Planitzer bit off a lot to chew, but he succeeds wonderfully in guiding this bold venture to a successful conclusion. Bruno becomes a saviour in spite of himself and the little Vietnamese boy finally finds the way out.