For years now, Hans Wagner (Hubertus Brandt) has been on pills because
everything frightened him - including the stars in the sky even. But then
one day, he ran out of pills, and when he, overcome by fear after fear,
has made it to the supermarket to buy a bottle of whiskey to calm himself,
he falls in love with the lovely yound cashier (Sarah Bellini) - but is of
course much to frightened to chat her up, instead tells the whole story to
a bum, Hobbit (Ulrich Bähnk) while waiting for the cashier to finish her
shift. When she exits the supermarket Hans again fails to make contact,
but has grown friendly enough with Hobbit to invite him to stay at his
place. The next attempt to chat up the cashier ends in positive
disaster, so Hobbit suggests Hans trains to chat up girls in a
speed-dating club - and his first speed-date with Amelie (Nika Kushnir)
ends in total disaster as she feels used having a speed-date with someone
who is only training to get another date - but then accidently he invites
her to his apartment and the two of them become the greatest of friends,
with Hobbit making it a perfect threesome ... on a purely platonic level,
mind you. And even though Hans has never managed to date his lovely
cashier, he feels happy for the first time in ages ... Happy end? Not
in the least, because one night Hans is awakened by a fairy (Anna Berg),
who grants him one wish, but when Hans wishes for the cashier to fall in
love with him, she admits she can't do that ... but leads him to Gregor
(Jens Wesemann), a weirdo (demon?) living in a parallel universe who
grants him his wish ... for a dream - something Hans is happy to give ... When
Hans next passes the supermarket, the cashier is indeed madly in love with
him and dashes towards him - to be run over by a car and die before she
hits the floor. Hans is heartbroken ... but that turns out to be the least
of his problems, as apparently the dream he gave to Gregor opened the door
to another dimension, for the "Old Gods" to return, the old Gods
Gregor so wanted to rule this realm again .. but the old Gods are grumpy
... Now there's an (in a good way) unusual film, it starts out
as a romantic comedy (if one with psycho elements), and eventually it
veers off into horror territory, with a story clearly inspired by H.P.
Lovecraft but told in its own very original way. And the whole thing
works, too, because it doesn't try to hard to prove to the audience it's
weird via direction and acting but relies on its story, and it doesn't go
for cheap jokes either but presents its very own and very weird brand of
comedy - that's actually pretty much in line with the film's unusual
title. In all, it's really not a movie you see everyday ... but you
might enjoy all the more for it! And if this has made you at
all curious, go and see the movie here:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/hanswagner
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