Characters & Themes
Summer Guests (1976) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1976 · 115 mins · German
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- Directed by
- Peter Stein
- Starring
- Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Jutta Lampe, Gerd Wameling, Ilse Ritter, Michael König
The story follows a circle of affluent middle‑class individuals who spend their days in pretentious, quasi‑intellectual arguments, each seeking meaning amid their comfortable, idle existence. Their endless debates expose shallow values and a yearning for purpose, all drawn from Maxim Gorky’s original play.
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