Die Liebe und Viktor (2009)
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Rolf Zacher, Samuel Finzi, Madeleine Lierck, Stephanie Stremler, Julia Becker, Isaak Dentler, Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen
A disillusioned young man takes Don Quixote as his model and sets out to persuade others that love is a delusion.
The story
The depressed Viktor is convinced that love does not exist and makes it his mission to persuade others of the same. When he reconnects with his school friend Otto, Viktor moves in with him temporarily, despite the displeasure of Otto’s girlfriend, Therese. He finds a copy of Don Quixote, and that night a visitor introduces himself as Don Quixote of Treuenbrietzen. Believing himself chosen as Don Quixote’s successor, Viktor recruits the kind-hearted Otto as his sidekick. Together, they steal romantic films from a video store and attempt to dissuade a young woman from getting married.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The depressed Viktor is convinced that love does not exist and has made it his mission to convince everyone else of that, too. He runs into his school friend Otto again and, much to the displeasure of Otto’s girlfriend, Therese, temporarily moves in with him. There, he finds a copy of Don Quixote. That night, a man appears to him in his room and introduces himself as Don Quixote of Treuenbrietzen. Viktor now believes he has been chosen to become Don Quixote’s successor. The kind-hearted Otto agrees to become Viktor’s sidekick. Together, they steal romantic movies from a video store and try to convince a young woman not to get married. Meanwhile, Otto has problems of his own to solve. When he and Viktor stop an unhappy psychiatrist from committing suicide, the psychiatrist returns the favor by motivating Otto to take up his dream again and study medicine. Viktor, too, eventually gets back together with his former girlfriend, Klara.
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