Die letzten Millionen (2014)

Carmen works at the Vileta retirement home. There she also has dealings with Conrad Fellinger, whom she describes as a Casanova and a born loner. For him, every new day is full of adventures and promises. Other residents include Otto and Jakob, a gay couple who still mean a great deal to each other in old age. The married couple Günter and Karin are residents too, as is Rosie, whose husband has already died. Karin believes that, no matter how hard you try, suddenly life goes on without the old people. Conrad, Otto and Jakob, Günter and Karin, and Rosie play the lottery together. That Saturday, they are once again sitting in front of the television to watch the numbers being drawn. In disbelief, they watch as one after another of their numbers comes up. They hit the lottery jackpot and win 30 million euros together. Conrad dreams of finally being able to let loose sexually again. But when he gets together with Tatjana, he fails to perform. Otto and Jakob, on the other hand, make their dream of owning a sailboat come true. Rosie is visited by her son Alfi and his wife Gesa. It is obvious that both are afraid someone at the retirement home might take the money from the old lady, money that Gesa, above all, wants for herself at any cost. Karin now wants at last to fulfill her dream of seeing a little of the world and traveling. But her suggestions are met with indifference from her husband Günter, who thinks they have everything they need here at the home. So Karin decides to travel alone. At her expensive hotel in South Africa, she meets Annegret, who is about the same age and surrounds herself with young men whose time she has to pay dearly for. The two women get along and team up. Annegret says that she and Karin are people who want to be loved. Alfi and Gesa are looking for houses and show Rosie an impressive villa with almost 1,000 square meters of living space and a large park-like garden. They then take her to a garden house which, Gesa says, could be adapted for an elderly person; Rosie would have her own little domain there, with room upstairs for a caregiver as well. Conrad, meanwhile, throws money out the window with both hands and even persuades Günter, who feels lonely without his wife, to join him in his excesses. When Conrad collapses in front of Günter one morning, he is taken to hospital, where it turns out he has taken too many potency-enhancing pills. Since Conrad had asked for Inge Leiphold, she is contacted and tells Carmen that she and Conrad were once together, though at first only to annoy her parents. Inge tells him that he has a daughter named Ella. When Conrad is feeling better, he visits Ella at her workplace and tries to tell her that he has missed her, even though until now he had not known she existed. When Ella decides to visit him at the retirement home, she arrives too late. He died during the night. He left her a letter and a check for 7,000,000 euros. Otto and Jakob seem to be truly enjoying their windfall. But when Jakob falls overboard and drowns, even though he can actually swim, Otto talks to Carmen about his friend and says he has the wonderful gift of being happy. They both know, however, that Jakob is suffering from slowly progressing dementia. Rosie continues to be seen as a burden by her daughter-in-law and remains shut away in the garden house, just as she had been sidelined at the retirement home by Alfi and Gesa. Although she paid for everything, Gesa wants to keep her out of the villa as much as possible. Alfi proves unable to stand up to his wife and dances to her tune. When Rosie also finds out that her son and daughter-in-law are throwing a big party but she is not welcome, it affects her so badly that she grows thinner and thinner. Agnieszka, her forthright Polish caregiver, is worried. But Gesa does not let up until Rosie transfers all of her lottery winnings to her son. One night, during a thunderstorm, Rosie's little dog—her whole world—goes missing. When she is able to hold the faithful animal in her arms again, Rosie vows that things cannot go on this way. She returns to the retirement home, but only temporarily. Then, together with Agnieszka, she goes to the villa and sets things straight. She demands both the property and her money back and tells her son and his wife that they must move out immediately. She then moves in there with all the lottery winners and Agnieszka, and also offers Carmen and the caregiver Ursula the chance to look after the residents there. The villa still has a surprise in the basement for its new residents: a large swimming pool. And finally, Günter has brought himself to fulfill Conrad’s wish to scatter his ashes in Brazil, on Copacabana Beach. That also gives Karin another chance to travel abroad.