No Sex (1999)
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Kai Scheve, Nadja Uhl, Hanns Zischler, Christiane Krüger, Monica Bleibtreu
After a series of professional and personal setbacks, an impotent architecture student finds a chance at love with an ambitious waitress.
The story
Young architecture student Paul is hit by a cascade of setbacks: his girlfriend leaves him, the first house he designed collapses, and he loses his job at the firm run by his father. He also discovers that he is sexually impotent. While unsuccessfully trying to find a new girlfriend, he meets Isabell, an optimistic waitress who is unexpectedly pregnant and determined to run her own restaurant. After ending her relationship with the child’s father, Isabell moves in with Paul. They begin building a loving relationship, but Paul’s impotence becomes a serious challenge for them.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
For young architecture student Paul, everything that could possibly go wrong happens at the worst possible time. Not only does his girlfriend leave him, but the first house he designed himself collapses, and as a result he loses his job at the architecture firm where his father is the boss. As if all that weren’t enough bad luck, Paul also discovers that he is sexually impotent. But things seem to take a turn for the better when, during his unsuccessful attempts to find a new girlfriend, he meets Isabell, a life-affirming waitress. She became pregnant unintentionally and has set herself the ambitious goal of running her own restaurant. After she breaks up with the father of her child, she moves in with Paul, and the two lay the foundation for a loving relationship—one that is put to a severe test by Paul’s impotence.
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