Vienna, wine, women and song – In the film “Wilma wants more” a woman from Lusatia starts anew

What do you do when you lose your unloved job in the electronics store, your husband is cooking spaghetti naked with your best friend, and all your certificates are useless? At the end of the 1990s, Wilma (Fritzi Haberlandt), in her mid-forties, decides to leave Lusatia behind and head for Vienna.

Her boyfriend from better times there is a whiner who can't help her either. Her only option is the "trade street," where she, the only woman among men, has to work every day for little pay.

Starting from scratch, she's lucky. She's soon in demand as a skilled electrician. She finds a tiny room in a left-wing, anarchic shared apartment, and even a nice "Austrian" with whom more than just wine drinking is fun. Her zest for life and courage return.

In this tragicomedy, Maren-Kea Freese's heroine, without any sugarcoating of Ostalgie (nostalgia for the former East Germany), represents many GDR women who lost their jobs and livelihoods during the period of upheaval, whose professional knowledge was no longer in demand, and who had to reinvent themselves. Wilma is a go-getter who doesn't give up and gets back up after every setback.

The heated discussions at the shared flat table are very funny, when the “Ossi” is asked to talk about the defunct GDR and the revolution and, above all, the feminist literature professor (Meret Engelhardt) is amazed by the socialist reality and everyone - inspired by the tasty Zweigelt - belts out the political agitation song “Tell me where you stand” together.

“Wilma wants more,” directed by Maren-Kea Freese, with Fritzi Haberlandt and Meret Engelhardt, 110 minutes, FSK 0 (film release on July 31)