Search Film, Company, People...

ANDREA GETS A DIVORCE

ANDREA LÄSST SICH SCHEIDEN

By Josef HADER

Black comedy - Completed 2024

An absurd comedy that is brilliantly witty and superbly acted.

Berlinale 2024

Panorama

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Black comedy, Second film, Drama
- Countries
- AUSTRIA
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 111 mn
- Director(s)
- Josef HADER
- Cast
- Birgit MINICHMAYER
- Producer(s)
- Michael KATZ (WEGA Filmproduktion ), Veit HEIUSCHKA (WEGA Filmproduktion )
- Synopsis
- Andrea, a small-town policewoman, has decided to move on from her unhappy marriage with the help of a transfer to a higher position in the police department of the next bigger city. As she drives home after a birthday party, she has no chance of stopping when her not-yet-divorced husband suddenly appears in front of her car, drunk. Unable to break, she runs him over and kills him. In a state of shock, Andrea flees the scene.
  Still, that night, being called to duty as the local police officer to the crime scene, she discovers to her horror that someone else has accepted responsibility for the accident: Franz, a religion teacher and recovered alcoholic, is convinced that he ran over the victim, and so is everyone else in the village. While Franz starts drinking again, Andrea applies herself to the task of eliminating all traces of her guilt. But in the end, she has to take responsibility.