Glorious Times in the Spessart

Time travel drives the narrative, flinging Anneliese, Frank, and the time-ship ghosts across centuries. The past tests lovers and soldiers as partners drift apart and reunite, while a future glimpse shows a long life built on shared history. Memory and aging are reshaped by each temporal detour, until the final acts resolve the timeline and the couple's future.

Set in the remote Spessart mountains and centered on the Spessart Inn, the film ties rural Germany to a whimsical time-travel plot. The landscape provides a fairy-tale backdrop for romance, espionage, and space-borne misadventures as eras collide. The inn itself acts as a gateway through time, linking Anneliese's wedding to the ghosts' quest for redemption.

⏳ Time Travel

The story hinges on shifting eras created by the jammed rocket nozzle, moving characters between ancient Germanic times, the Thirty Years' War, and a far future. Time travel creates both obstacles and opportunities for love and loyalty, showing how relationships endure across centuries. The device also probes how memory can be bent or rewritten by temporal loops.

💞 Love Across Time

Anneliese and Frank's wedding becomes a through-line that survives changing centuries. Their bond is tested by aging, memory loss, and the distances of eras, yet love persists as a personal compass. The film suggests that devotion can outlast even the most disruptive of timelines.

🕊️ Redemption

The Spessart inn robbers, initially acting as criminals, seek to repair a problem and end up aiding a couple. Through their time-travel misadventures, they find a path to redemption as their actions enable a lasting union and a hopeful future for Anneliese and Frank.