Die Friseuse

Their GDR no longer exists. Her husband, her job, her house in the countryside are also gone. The unemployed hairdresser Kathi König (Gabriela Maria Schmeide) lives with daughter Julia (Natascha Lawiszus) in a prefabricated housing estate in Berlin-Marzahn. She wants to work, but she is not allowed. She is denied a new job in the hairdressing salon of a large shopping center, which she thought was secure. Because Kathi is fat – very fat – and therefore 'not aesthetic'. At least that's what salon manager Mrs. Krieger (Maren Kroymann) thinks. But the resolute Kathi is not so easily fobbed off. In an empty Asian snack bar next to the Krieger salon, she wants to open her own hairdresser's shop. A battle against authorities, banks and consultants begins. On the long road to the hoped-for happiness, she meets people, the attractive hairdresser Silke (Christina Große), the half-silk smuggler Joe (Rolf Zacher) and the lovable Vietnamese Tien (Ill-Young Kim).

Successful director Doris Dörrie ('Cherry Blossoms - Hanami') staged the amusingly moving story of a woman who is strong in two respects and fights for a better life with force and dignity in Berlin. The screenplay was written by Laila Stieler ('The Policewoman'), producer is Ulrich Limmer ('Lippel's Dream').