Better than Nothing

Aug 21, 2014

1h 36m

★ 5.1

Life is an asshole

Overview

The 17-year-old Tom filled out a questionnaire for the Employment Agency at a vocational guidance office in his school. He falls in love with the trainee, which distributed the questionnaires. In the evaluation he gets out a job as an apprentice at a funeral home as a funeral professional.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

NFP neue film produktion

Seven Pictures

Sat.1

Better than Nothing Trailers

Cast

Tom Rasmus

François Goeske

Carsten Rasmus

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Sarah Gerster

Anna Fischer

Olga Petrowa

Nicolette Krebitz

Herr Hiller jr.

Martin Brambach

Hans

Clemens Schick

Mike Bender

Jannis Niewöhner

Maren

Emilia Schüle

Sophia Rasmus

Marozsán Erika

Wally

Hannelore Elsner

Mutter Monika

Karina Fallenstein

Fahrlehrer Guido Seibel

Hilmar Eichhorn

Saeko, who had seen off her husband Tokio on a business trip to Seoul, happened to be reunited with Yoshito, her boyfriend from her school days, and was invited to embrace him at a hotel. After Saeko fell in love with her righteous man, she slept with many men to forget her pain. Saeko, who was embraced by her righteous man for the first time in a long time, was approached by a man in the downtown area at night. Goro Takashima was one of the people she had a crush on during her student days. Goro was working overseas with his wife, Makiko, but had returned to Japan due to business matters. Goro persistently seduced Saeko. Saeko apologizes to Tokio in her heart and ends up being held in his arms. In fact, her wife Makiko is also the mistress of Goro's boss, Masao Yuki, and they have had physical relations many times...

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