Manuel Rubey and Simon Schwarz

THE RESTAURANT

Manuel Rubey and Simon Schwarz have four left hands together. At least. Nevertheless, the two friends think it's a great idea to open a restaurant. Simon has already played a chef in a film and Manuel likes to drink wine. That should be enough for expertise, they think. The posh restaurant in the middle of the province is supposed to put everything that has ever existed before in the shade. Seen in light, however, it looks more like a candidate for “bungled construction.”

When the restaurant burns down, there is a strong smell of arson. At least for the village police officer, who uses the investigations with the acting stars to get started with her true crime podcast.

The search for the fire devil leads Manuel Rubey and Simon Schwarz back into the past, into their innermost being and to essential questions such as: Aren't we all little arsonists in some way? In our friendships? At work? In a relationship?

For the policewoman the case is clear anyway: it was Rubey who warmly demolished the hut. Because the murderers are perhaps always the gardeners, but the arsonists are always the Viennese. *

* We have decided not to gender the saying.

Book: Sebastian Huber, Jürgen Marschal, Manuel Rubey, Simon Schwarz
Director: Sebastian Huber & Jürgen Marschal

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