Funkuhr media library tip for the weekend

Brand new in the ZDF media library: Next Exit Happiness - Juri's Return

When Katharina (Valerie Niehaus) comes face to face with her old love Juri (Dirk Borchardt), 30 years seem like a day. For decades she has looked after Juri's father Willi (Ernst Stötzner), but now her good will is reaching its limits. Because Willi is becoming whimsical and finally needs his son's attention. And so Juri returns from Canada, where he has been organizing tours through the wilderness ever since he climbed over the fence of the Prague embassy in 1989.

At the time, the unconventional musician wanted to flee the GDR together with Katharina, but she shied away from the decisive step at the fence.

Nothing fits less into Katharina's concept of life than the fact that after 30 years, the old magic is instantly back when they first meet and she realizes that she still loves this man. After all, the director of a kindergarten in Eisenach is now in the middle of life, as the mother of Nina (Runa Greiner) and Paul (Sebastian Schneider) and as the wife of Georg Wegener (Max Hopp), the captain of the Wartburg castle. Georg registers the new, old closeness between his wife and Juri, but initially reacts maturely and full of trust towards Katharina. However, when she is unable to stay away from Juri and helps him to find a place to look after his father, the inevitable happens.

Juri, on the other hand, also feels torn towards his father: He must return to Canada and take care of his business. But can he really leave Willi, who is ageing but still too agile and adventurous for a retirement home?

The first film in the two-part prelude to a television series about family, friendship and a great love in which German-German history has left its mark.