Widows

Widows

93 mins | Comedy | Jan. 22, 1998

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife and mother of three children, Elisabeth is the perfect career woman and Maria uses already in their third marriage sex appeal to get ahead in life. But one day it turns out that the three except their friendship still connects another great thing in common: They are all tired of her life as a wife. And so begins the story of a rabenscharzen comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulties to achieve this. The only question is: How are they merely their husbands going on?

Widows

93 mins | Comedy | Jan. 22, 1998

Widows
A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella Muti) are great friends, but at the same time completely different. Molly is a difficult stressed housewife and mother of three children, Elisabeth is the perfect career woman and Maria uses already in their third marriage sex appeal to get ahead in life. But one day it turns out that the three except their friendship still connects another great thing in common: They are all tired of her life as a wife. And so begins the story of a rabenscharzen comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulties to achieve this. The only question is: How are they merely their husbands going on?
Producers
Original title Widows – Erst die Ehe, dann das Vergnügen
Directors Sherry Hormann
Writers Kit Hopkins

Cast

Ornella Muti

as Maria Sommer

Katja Flint

as Elisabeth Bernsdorf

Eva Mattes

as Molly Dollinger

Uwe Ochsenknecht

as Erich Dollinger

Martin Benrath

as Charles Bernsdorf

Heino Ferch

as Vince Travelli

Michaela May

as Andrea

Huub Stapel

as Konrad Sommer

Mac Steinmeier

as Priester

Michael König

as Dr. Teutsch

Luca Verhoeven

as Benny Dollinger