An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get worse, he unwantedly gets a new assistent assigned to himself. Zazie is french, jewish, slightly germanophobe and supposed to help Toto to prepare a major congress. As the star of the congress suddenly wants to pull out, the problems are piling up and the two have to fix it.
Chris Kraus
Director
Lars Eidinger
Totila Blumen
Adèle Haenel
Zazie Lindeau
Hannah Herzsprung
Hannah Blumen
Jan Josef Liefers
Balthasar Thomas
Rolf Hoppe
Professor Norkus
Bibiana Zeller
Lisbeth Blumen
Eva Löbau
Anita Koldewey
Hans-Jochen Wagner
Mauersperger
Sigrid Marquardt
Tara Rubinstein
Djenabuh Jalloh
Sarah Blumen
Cornelius Schwalm
Bächle
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An aspect of She-Ra that I find refreshing is even though a large portion of the cast is on the LGBTQ+ Spectrum, being gay is never mentioned. While this might initially sound like a negative thing, in the show’s land of Etheria being on the gay spectrum is shown to be so common and normalized that straight isn’t the default. As much as there is to appreciate about narratives revolving around the obstacles that may come from being non-heteronormative, it’s nice to get immersed in a world where no one bats an eye at all to any sort of differing identity.
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