Director: Helmut Dietl
Producers: Helmut Dietl, Norbert Preuss
Cinematographer: Gernot Poll (BVK)
Editor: Inez Pegnier
Screenwriters: Helmut Dietl, Patrick Suskind
Music: Dario Farina
Principal Cast: Goetz George, Mario Adolf, Heiner Lauterbach, Gudrun Landgrebe, Veronica Ferres, Joachim Krol

Rossini, an elegant Munich restaurant, serves as the principal hangout for a variety of players involved in the film business. Uhu (Goetz George), a film director, is trying to pin down the film rights for "Loreley," a best-selling novel by a reclusive writer, while he searches for the perfect girl to play the lead character. His producer, Oscar (Heiner Lauterbach), fights with a trio of bankers who want to cut off his credit. And gossip columnists, agents, and assorted cognoscenti keep their ears peeled between courses, ready to strike. When a beautiful, aspiring actress (Veronica Ferres) arrives on the scene, she sizes up the situation and digs in her heels, determined to do get the part of Loreley. Thus the stage is set for Helmut Dietl's wickedly funny film, in which floundering careers, artistic egos, high finance and unrequited love are sorted out in grand style. "Sumptuously lensed in widescreen, and with an elegance that German cinema hasn't shown in decades." (Variety)