| Ödipussi | |
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Loriot as Paul Winkelmann |
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| Directed by | Loriot |
| Produced by | Horst Wendlandt, Günter Rohrbach |
| Written by | Vicco von Bülow |
| Starring | Loriot, Evelyn Hamann, Katharina Brauren, Edda Seippel, Richard Lauffen |
| Music by | Rolf Wilhelm |
| Cinematography | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| Release date(s) | March 10, 1988 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Ödipussi is a 1988 German film, starring by Loriot and the first of two films that he directed. The title alludes to Ödipussi as a pun on the Oedipus complex described by Sigmund Freud and the James Bond film Octopussy.
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Paul Winkelmann is single and running the family's furniture and decoration business. Despite of his age (he is 56 years old), he still maintains a close relationship with his mother who cooks for him and shows little understanding for him renting his own apartment.
When he meets Margarethe Tietze, a practicing psychologist, the two attempt to join their expertises in order to improve on consulting potential furniture customers with psychological troubles. After an afternoon of coffee and pastries and a business trip to Italy, Margarethe finally introduces Paul to her parents who initially assume he was a patient of hers. In the mean time, Paul's jealous mother found a sublessee - very much to the dislike of Paul. Margarethe's family's return visit at Paul's mother's apartment ends with a debacle.
The première of the movie was on March 10, 1988 at 16:00 hours in East Berlin and in the evening in the West. It was the first and only première of this kind in the divided Germany. In the Federal Republic the film was seen by 4,612,801 viewers[1].