Leise flehen meine Glieder

"Leise flehen meine Glieder"
A programme that has long since become a cult classic

Hilarious and touching in equal measure, three retirees confess that their future lies behind them. Freedom always came with constraints, happiness always left wounds, the fight for love was a cramp, sex was exhausting, marriage a misunderstanding. The most beautiful things were always the worst. Whether in twenty years' time retirement starts at 80 and unemployment at 40, petrol prices rise and TV gets cheaper - at their age, the only way to make yourself useful is to demand the prescribed "socially acceptable early departure". Until they feel their strength: we are 20 million...

Sometimes grotesquely funny, sometimes quietly melancholic, Brigitte Heinrich, Michael Rümmler and Frank Weiland - accompanied by the Jens-Wagner-Band - look at the pressing problems of our society in this cabaret programme, written by Wolfgang Schaller in collaboration with Peter Ensikat and praised by critics and audiences alike.

Directed by Matthias Nagatis