Movie: Gisela

Top 10 Billed Cast

Anne Weinknecht
Anne Weinknecht

Gisela

Stefan Rudolf
Stefan Rudolf

Georg

Carlo Ljubek
Carlo Ljubek

Paul

Horst Markgraf
Horst Markgraf

Mirko

Esther Zimmering
Esther Zimmering

Bettina

Paul Oberpichler
Paul Oberpichler

Stefan

Anna Loos
Anna Loos

Anita

Daniel Gärtner
Daniel Gärtner

Tom

Jannek Petri
Jannek Petri

Andreas Grötzinger
Andreas Grötzinger

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    Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.

  • Release Date

    2005-06-27

  • Average

    5.1

  • Rating:

    2.5 starts
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  • Languages:

    Deutsch
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