Dir.: Helmut Dietl; Script: Helmut Dietl, Patrick Süsking; Phot.: Gernot Roll; Ed.: Inez Regnier; Mus.: Dario Farina; Cast: Götz George, Mario Adorf, Heiner Lauterbach, Gudrun Landgrebe, Veronica Ferres, Hannelore Hoger, Jan Josef Liefers, Meret Becker, Armin Rhode; Prod.: Helmut Dietl, Diana Film, Ainmillerstrasse 33, 80801 Munich (Allemagne), tél.: (49-89) 3839 250, fax: (49-89) 3839 25 25; Sales: Bavaria Film International, Bavariafilmplatz 7, 82031 Gelselgasteig (Allemagne), tél.: (49-89) 6499 26 81, fax: (49-89) 6499 22 40 .

Every evening, the local Italian restaurant, Rossini, is frequented by a crowd of regulars who, despite their many differences have this in common: they're singles who've made the restaurant their home away from home. They use the place as a living room and office, for private and professional business, as a theatre for their personal dramas, romantic comedies, tragedies. The players include: a busy plastic surgeon, an apparently nymphomaniac journalist, a loud, jovial film producer who has three bankers seeking to cancel his credit, an uncompromising poet who lives in a brothel, a beautiful, enigmatic woman called Valerie, a nervous, allergy-ridden wreck of a man on the verge of his fourth divorce, a misanthropist who eats only in the private room, the restaurant owner and the personnel. What unites them, besides where they hang out, are such mysterious matters as love, hatred, jealousy, friendships that survive business dealings, etc. "Irony and wit, coquetry and comedy. Plus a good dose of black humour." -- Express, Munich "A small extract of society that turns into a brilliant 'comédie humaine'." -- Berlin Morgenpost