Never at the sea
Never by the sea The title, childishly defiant, resigned and almost offended by the injustices of life, is perfect for this film. Three men of middle age are stranded, just not on the turquoise blue sea, but in a Mercedes, wedged between trees deep in a forest canyon: The frank-hearted artist Schwanenmeister (played by Heinz Strunk, with his autobiographical book "Meat is my vegetables" the phony history professor Baisch (Dirk Stermann) and his tablet-addicted brother-in-law shaken by Weltekel Anzengruber (Christoph Grissemann) stormed the bestseller lists). After they have strayed off the nocturnal highway, the men are stuck for days. The only food: a bowl of herring salad and a few bottles of Prosecco.
The three of them are now sitting in their jail waiting and talking, shouting, banging their hair, kissing, cheating, sleeping, laughing, starving. They capitulate, as they capitulate in their lives, just "never by the sea", but captured, on the edge of the abyss. Who moves, crashes, seems to be their motto. They hope for rescue from the outside. Is she coming? In any case it gets worse ...
This chamber play, aptly called "Psycho-Grotesque" by the creators, is fun. The dialogues between the Austrian cabaret artists Stermann, Grissemann and Studio Braun co-founder Heinz Strunk are as exhilarating as they are credible in their absurdity. And although the three are not professional actors - but a really nice bunch of antiheroes.
