SuperTex - Eine Stunde im Paradies

SuperTex

Max Breslauer, attractive, vital and in his mid-thirties, is living as a business consultant in Amsterdam.

He is the elder of Simon Breslauer′s two sons, who as the only one of a family of poor East European Jews survived the war and established a textile empire in the Netherlands. Simon is an experienced businessman, rough, yet clumsy - and full of sentimentality. Strict and loving at the same time, he values traditions such as the obligatory family dinner on Shabbat, which he uses for suffocating his two sons and his wife with his Jewish worldly wisdoms.
It is difficult for Max to find his own way in life, always being overshadowed by the figure of his omnipresent father. As future heir of SuperTex, he chooses to ignore all of it, including his family and his entire Jewish background. Frustrated with his father′s permanent disregard for his professional qualities, he unexpectedly leaves the family business.
Then one morning Max accidentally hits a young boy with his car - and finds himself forced to question his own identity. His girlfriend Esther leaves for Israel in search of a purer life. When his father then falls into a coma and his brother messes up a business deal for the family company in Casablanca, it seems as though all the people important to Max have left him. At this point, he finally seems to find his orientation in life in the philosophy of his father Simon: "An hour in paradise is well worthwhile." Max has finally grown up and is ready to accept his father′s legacy.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH