Title: Have a Nice Die   Feature Date: Summer 2003 Direction: Mathias Allary Script: Mathias Allary Cast: Rolf Zacher, Katharina Thalbach, Armin Rohde und Esther Zimmering More: Quotes

Meghal

In a dusty night somebody suddenly appears on a stubble-field: Death, in the shape of a seductive, charming gentlemen, named Meghal. He has a special reason to visit earth: People have lost their belief in death. When human beings die they put the blame on medicine and science that failed once more. Meghal is enraged at that and has got the ambition to convince the human race in seven days of his existence.

With the help of a strange musical clock he manages his first job, to kill a truck-driver. But by the second task, to tempt to kill Ratze, a young homeless, who is disappointed from life, he is getting in trouble.

He finds Ratze in a subway-station, where he is going to commit suicide. Everything could be so easy, just a little jump into the track... But just in the critical moment, Meghal is pushed on the crowded platform.

By confusion he follows a completely different person: Lucas, who is in no way dispirited. He works as a light-designer and checks new installations, fascinated by light and its magnetism.

Meghal follows Lucas to his company "Light & Voltage", where a party takes place this evening. Lucas and his partner Umut are doing their best to save the company from bankruptcy. All attempts of Meghal, to manipulate Lucas to jump out of a window or throw down from a crane come to nothing. Meghal's honour and self-assurance are put to a hard test.

Menschliches...

And then there is Anna. She is the 28 year old new neighbour of Lucas and a sales assis-tant in a fashion boutique. Her most recent removal is not her first in the past. After every break-up, she changes job or flat.

Her mother Marietta has become a heavy drinker after her husband has left her. From time to time she visits her daughter to borrow some money. Mother and daughter both care for each other but can't confess their feelings.

The first encounter of Lucas and Anna happens rather by chance. Lucas has to deliver a present to Anna from her mother. He rings and is immediately caught up in a weird story, forced to play the part of her new lover. This way, Anna is trying to escape of her obtrusive ex-boyfriend.

... und Zwischenmenschliches

Lucas is solicitous about Anna, but she is anxious about stable alliances and expresses her fears in sudden changes of mood. The wound of her father's unexpected disappear-ing many years ago is too deep. Between the two of them starts a tender, savage and inexorable love with undetermined exit.

One evening, Marietta sits and waits in vain in front of her daughter's door. She has lost her keys. One floor below, Meghal is following his task with the help of his musical clock: to enchant Lucas to die. 

When Anna's mother finally decides to go, she falls over Meghal in the darkness of the stairs. She is terribly embarrassed and wants to make up for it. She quickly decides and takes him with her to her favourite pub, where she meets her friends Wolle and Ratze, two persons who care as much about life as about death.

In spite of his mute existence, they become friendly with Meghal, who does not recog-nise Ratze. Lucas on the other hand succeeds to escape from the invisible death-persuasion of Meghal several times.

Meghal drinks many glasses. He is absorbed by the drunkards' friendship. Marietta, on her quest for sense and protection, gets closer to him. Meghal forgets more and more his fateful tasks.

Thus absurd situations take place: heavy accidents are ending forbearing and many mis-takes are happening. After a couple of days, Meghal recognises the situation and he must hurry, to fulfil his job..