Schultze Gets the Blues

Infobox_Film
name = Schultze Gets the Blues


caption = "Schultze Gets the Blues" film poster
writer = Michael Schorr
starring = Horst Krause,
Karl Fred Müller
director = Michael Schorr
producer = Jens Körner
distributor = Paramount Classics (USA)
released = September 2, 2003
runtime = 114 minutes
language = German
budget =
imdb_id = 0388395

"Schultze Gets the Blues" is a 2003 film directed and written by Michael Schorr.

*Tagline: "It's never too late to re-tune your soul."

Plot

Schultze (played by Horst Krause) is a large, recently retired salt-miner living in Teutschenthal (near Halle, Saxony-Anhalt in Germany). Along with his also laid-off friends Jürgen and Manfred, he finds himself restless with so much spare time.

For years, he has played traditional polka music on his accordion, but a series of upheavals in his life inspire an interest in American Zydeco music. Though being afraid of travelling to the USA at the beginning he accepts his music club's wish to represent it at a German folk music festival in New Braunfels, Texas.

But instead of appearing there he chooses to travel around the countryside despite speaking little English, immersing himself in the music and culture of the Bayou. Finally, among his newly found friends he becomes very sick and presumably dies. Back in Teutschenthal a funeral is held for Schultze which turns into a descent and mildly happy celebration of his life: "Herr, lehre uns Bedenken, dass wir alle einmal sterben müssen, auf das wir im Leben klug werden" - "Lord, teach us to understand we all have to die sometime, that we become wiser in our lives" (Psalm 90,12).

External links

* [http://www.schultzegetstheblues.de/ Official site]
*imdb title|id=0388395|title=Schultze Gets the Blues