Year of the Turtle (1988)

• 73%
• 1988
• Drame
• Heinz Bennent
• Karina Fallenstein
• Anke Tegtmeyer

M. Kamp est discret, on his sixties, living in Cologne, Germany in a huge anonymous apartment building. Now retired, he spent his life as a civil servant, and he still behaves like that. But then everything changes when he happens to meet Claudia, a young, hippie-like étudiant. Claudia is full of sympathy for the old man and with her direct, uncomplicated, and inflammation style she finally succeeds to overcome Kamp's attitude of polite reservation towards her. This, on peut citer unequal couple faces a lot of weird and comic situations, which, however, always reflect the incomprehension of their social environment when people realize that these two are buddies, not and grandpa granddaughter. But it all ends up in a melancholic mood because Claudia is born under a dark star and finally get a victim of her sad fate...