The Big Day

A film by Jo Baier

Heio von Stetten and Martina Gedeck

"The Big Day" is a romantic comedy about marriage and a generation determined to do things as differently as possible from their parents.

All was supposed to be beautiful: Waltraud thought to marry her longtime boyfriend Ritschi with a big party in Munich to reckonin her mother.
Waltrauds parents live on the Bavarian countryside where they run a little butchers shop. Her mother Fanny does her utmost to convice her daughter to marry in her hometown with the blessing of the church – as is proper. On the wedding day, both the traditional butcher family and the city friends of Waltraud bounce against each other.

What was supposed to be "the most beautiful day" ends as a disaster: Waltraud and Ritschi consider their divorce.

FAZ: "It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a human comedy that is this right on the mark and which has so much loving attention to detail. Absurdity goes hand-in-hand with the deeply disturbing here. Hilariously funny and very touching.”

Bavarian TV-Award 1996 Best Comedy

Waltraut	Martina Gedeck
Ritschi	Heio von Stetten
Sepp	Joerg Hube
Fanny	Erna Wassmer
Erika	April Hailer
and more

Director	Jo Baier
Author	Ruth Toma
Director of Photography	Christian Reitz
Sound Mixer	Tomas Bastian
Editor	Clara Fabry
Music	Thomas Osterhoff
Supervising Producer	Bjoern Jensen
Co-Producer	Ingeborg Janiczek (ZDF)
Producer	Joerg Bundschuh

A Kick Film production in coproduction with ZDF
Financially supported by FFF Bayern