Seelenwanderung (1962)
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Hanns Lothar, Wolfgang Reichmann
In postwar Germany, Bum blames his troubles on his soul, and Axel suggests he think it out into a shoebox.
The story
In postwar Germany, Bum struggles to find his place amid the economic boom of the new Federal Republic. While drunk, he tells his friend Axel that the soul is to blame for everything. Axel proposes an unusual solution: Bum should think his soul out into a shoebox.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Postwar Germany. Bum, the friend of the down-and-out Axel, can’t quite find his place in the economic boom of the new Federal Republic. “The soul is to blame for everything,” he complains to his friend while drunk. Axel suggests that he simply “think” his soul out into a shoebox. Bum then pawns the box for five marks, and with this start-up capital he begins a meteoric but completely soulless rise to become a business tycoon. He no longer thinks of his old friend Axel. After his death, however, Bum faces a problem: he cannot enter the afterlife because his soul is missing. He visits his old friend Axel as a ghost, and Axel eventually lets himself be persuaded to search for the shoebox containing the soul and set it free.
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