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Soap Bohème

Ivan wants to go to Paris. Munich has become too small for him, too repetitive. His friends don’t seem to understand, but when it comes to friendship, sometimes „you don’t have a choice“, as Ivan says. There’s Lukas for example, whose intellectual self-confused balderdash can’t be taken seriously, even by himself. And then there’s the eccentric painter Paulus, who’s impious enough to have sex with Ivan’s beloved Vanessa in the restroom. It’s all about Vanessa anyway, because she’s sleeping with everybody except Ivan. That’s another reason why he wants to go away.
Desperate promiscuity and petty jealousy is everywhere you look: Also the artist Kikki doesn’t want to resist Paulus’ untamed aura. This again annoys her boyfriend Josef whose idea of an „open relationship“ had a slightly different meaning. Frustrated, he’s sitting in the pub, while the alcoholic, former GDR-prisoner behind the Bar tells his story about escaping the east for a Bob Dylan concert.
Nihilism, denial, decadence – one day in the life of Munich’s Boheme. They meet on the golf course and in the fanciest clubs uptown. Between waltzes and fine vodka, they’re discussing the most essential questions of existence; life as a diet-yoghurt-drink, the anal character of the golf sport, and hedonism as a gateway to salvation.

Soap Bohème is a high-speed film essay on the neuroses of Munich’s Boheme facing a failed fun society. The film deals with survival between a superficial affectations and the beautifully minded search for honest love and (as always) the deeper sense behind all things.