Live Is Life

Live Is Life

90 mins | Comedy | Feb. 2, 2010

A greater-Vienna seniors' home is run like a prison by the stuck-up female executive and staff. Hippie-type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathizing with seniors who still aspire to some dignity and self-realization, he helps them get around the rules, such as smuggling in contraband, and ends up inspiring them to form a rock band and enter a free podium competition. But it doesn't square with his own last shot as band guitarist.—KGF Vissers

Live Is Life

90 mins | Comedy | Feb. 2, 2010

Live Is Life
A greater-Vienna seniors' home is run like a prison by the stuck-up female executive and staff. Hippie-type rebel Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak incurs a community service to be spent there as orderly. Sympathizing with seniors who still aspire to some dignity and self-realization, he helps them get around the rules, such as smuggling in contraband, and ends up inspiring them to form a rock band and enter a free podium competition. But it doesn't square with his own last shot as band guitarist.—KGF Vissers
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Dor Film Production Company, ARD, ORF
Original title Die Spätzünder
Directors Wolfgang Murnberger
Writers Uli Brée

Cast

Jan Josef Liefers

as Rochus 'Rocco' Siwak

Ursula Strauss

as Marina

Bibiane Zeller

as Sissi Hopf

Joachim Fuchsberger

as Degenhard Schagowetz

Hans-Michael Rehberg

as Mr. Klüger

Libgart Schwarz

as Josefine Stolz

Petra Morzé

as Mrs. Glück

Michael Schönborn

as Viktor Hopf

Manuel Rubey

as Kuno

Trude Ackermann

as Mrs. Wachter

Uli Brée

as Katoch

Gisela Salcher

as Petra

Doris Golpashin

as TV Newscaster