Reinhold Hoffmann

An exhilarating, essayistic documentary about the 1980 festival of experimental theatre in the French city of Nancy. Werner Schroeter's favourite of his own films.

Hansi Bruckner is the owner of a riding stable in the Austrian Alps. His wife, who used to work as a doctor at a local orphanage, and who had left him after the death of their child, is now returning home and they want to try to overcome their differences and come to terms with past events.