
Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.

as Herbert Sobieski

as Rita Rosner

as Hans

as Thekla Sobieski

as Joe Czerny

as Alois "Luis" Hummel

as Schurl

as Mrs. Menzel

as Doris

as Mr. Pfeiffer

as Briefträger

as Chefarzt

as Reisebüroangestellte

as Greißlerin

as Wirt

as Ritas Freundin

as Jörg

as Hausverwalter

as Arzthilfe

as Frau im Gasthaus

as Sänger im Gasthaus