Ödipussi

Ödipussi
Loriot as Paul Winkelmann
Directed by	Loriot
Written by	Vicco von Bülow
Produced by	Horst Wendlandt, Günter Rohrbach
Starring	Loriot, Evelyn Hamann, Katharina Brauren, Edda Seippel, Richard Lauffen
Cinematography	Xaver Schwarzenberger
Music by	Rolf Wilhelm
Release date	March 10, 1988 (1988-03-10)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Ödipussi is a 1988 German comedy film, starring as well as written by Loriot, and the first of two films that he directed. The title is a pun on the Oedipus complex described by Sigmund Freud and the James Bond film Octopussy.

Synopsis

Paul Winkelmann is single and running the family's furniture and decoration business. Despite his age (he is 56 years old), he still maintains a close relationship with his mother who cooks for him and cannot understand that he rents his own apartment.

When he meets Margarethe Tietze, a practicing psychologist, the two attempt to join their expertises in order to improve on consulting potential furniture customers with psychological troubles. After an afternoon of coffee and pastries and a business trip to Italy, Margarethe finally introduces Paul to her parents, who initially assume he is a patient of hers. In the meantime, Paul's jealous mother found a sublessee - very much to the dislike of Paul. Margarethe's family's return visit at Paul's mother's apartment ends with a debacle.

Premières in East and West Germany

The première of the movie was on March 10, 1988 at 16:00 in East Berlin and in the evening in the West. It was the first and only première of this kind in the divided Germany. In the Federal Republic the film was seen by 4,612,801 viewers.

External links

• Oedipussi at IMDb