The Soft Course (1967)
Bernhard works as a warehouse clerk in Munich. After being sentenced to probation for a physical altercation with a right-wing extremist, he could no longer continue his engineering studies. Bernhard meets Johanna. She comes from a well-to-do family; her father is a real-estate developer and her brother is in the diplomatic service. Bernhard wants to share his roots with her, so the two go to Prague, where he lived until the end of the war. But her father disapproves of the trip to the Eastern bloc. When Bernhard finds out that he owes his chance to develop new technology, which led to his career advancement, to his girlfriend’s father, he is upset …
Director: Haro Senft
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Bruno Ganz as Bernhard Krahl |
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Verena Buss as Johanna Benedikt |
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Wolfgang Büttner as Richard Benedikt |
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Lia Eibenschütz as Gertrud Benedikt |
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Hans Putz as Wolf Kamper |
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Dany Mann as Susanne Kamper |
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Jan Kačer as Stefan |
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Vladimír Hlavatý as Prof. König |
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Nina Divíšková as Vera |
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Peter Höfer as |
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Rolf Ederer as |
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Ralf Gregan as |
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Lutz Hochstraate as |
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Pavel Landovský as |
| Directing | Haro Senft | Director |
| Writing | Haro Senft | Writer |
| Writing | Hans Noever | Writer |
| Editing | Thurid Söhnlein | Editor |
| Production | Haro Senft | Producer |
| Camera | Jan Čuřík | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Erich Ferstl | Original Music Composer |