Risks + Side Effects

Risks + Side Effects (2021)

June 4, 2023

A routine check-up reveals that the Pilates trainer Kathrin is suffering from kidney disease and needs a transplant. Her husband Arnold is a successful architect in the middle of a large project and is afraid of donating one of his kidneys. Götz, a friend of the couple’s, would undergo the operation immediately if it means saving Kathrin’s life – even though this causes problems with his partner Diana. Confronted by issues of life and death, the fragility of the relationships within and between the couples is laid bare. Eventually, the question can no longer be avoided: what is true love?

Escapades with Friends (aka Seitensprung mit Freunden)

Once during a party two friends get an idea: let’s exchange wives… Sixteen years of marriage between surgeon Paul (Samuel Finzi) and weather reporter Julia (Aglaia Szyszkowitz) has somehow become monotonous. They lack the old passion. Envious they look at their best friends Vanessa (Caroline Peters) and surgeon Marc (Fritz Karl), where it seems still really tingling. While Paul somehow seems still completely satisfied, especially Julia is frustrated. Vanessa tells her the secret of their […]