Sushi in Suhl

Oct 17, 2012

1h 40m

★ 5.8

Overview

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German province of Thuringen offers his guests a unique and exotic meal - Japanese Sukiyaki. It was intent to be a surprise for some of his best customers and it became a great success. Even the local paper wrote about it - and this should change the life of Rolf Anschütz forever.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Starcrest Media

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Cast

Rolf Anschütz

Uwe Steimle

Ingrid Anschütz

Julia Richter

Giesela

Ina Paule Klink

Dr. Hayashi

Gen Seto

Lothar Jäger (Kreisdirektor der HO)

Michael Kind

Hans Leutner

Thorsten Merten

Matsumoto

Yuki Iwamoto

Helga

Angelika Böttiger

Ernst Kaltenhauser

Christian Tramitz

Hans Kremser

Alexander Hörbe

Direktorin Malaschke

Deborah Kaufmann

Armin Palitzsch

Thomas Koch

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