Matthias Schweighöfer plays a taxi driver in this 2013 film who has some major life issues come up as we come in.
Frau Ella is played by Ruth-Maria Kubitschek, who was born before WWII in what is now Czech. Frau Ella is her most recent full length film. She began acting back in the 1950’s, but in the last couple decades, she has mostly been in television.
August Diehl, who we learned about in the post Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken, plays the friend in this film, without whom the plot wouldn’t be nearly as interesting.
We learn a lot about Frau Ella, which can lead to some great generational issues discussions, especially in the realm of biracial love and relationships.