THE BROOM

Stuttgart and Munich, West Germany, in the 1970’s. Anna Hoffmann has escaped the close knit society of her hometown Stuttgart to Munich. She has just graduated from film school, she has no money and no job, and her roommates in the women’s commune are getting nervous about the rent and household expenses. One day Patrick Dorn knocks on her door. Patrick is the husband of her cousin Sigrid. He has a gift for Anna: a broom, a souvenir from the couple’s travels in Brazil, that is supposed to have magic powers. Patrick is looking for a sensible and practical person to safeguard this object, a person like Anna. Soon the broom demonstrates its magical powers: First Anna finds money during a walk in the park, and then she is offered a job as editing assistant at the Bavarian Film Studios. But a few weeks later the broom begins to show its destructive powers. Anna, with her faithful dog Oskar, starts searching for a means to break the spell of the broom...