Miss Daisy and her chauffeur

"… GOD HAS GIVEN MORE UNDERSTANDING TO A LEMON THAN TO YOU …" Atlanta, Georgia, 1948: Miss Daisy is a 72-year-old retired schoolteacher. After she causes an accident one day while driving her car, her son Boolie buys her a new vehicle and, just to be safe, hires the Black man Hoke Coleburn as her chauffeur. Hoke, at 60 years old himself no longer the youngest, is a calm, wise man and thus the ideal counterpart to the self-centered Miss Daisy, who stubbornly refuses to accept his services. With perseverance and undeterred by some of the old lady's unkind remarks, Hoke eventually manages to get Miss Daisy into the car, and gradually, during their shared drives, a respectful sympathy develops between the mismatched pair. What initially has the charm of a rebellious taming evolves into a social piece with depth and subtle overtones, without completely dissolving the play of closeness and distance between the two main characters. There is enough explosive material for lasting tension provided by the real historical context from which the two protagonists come, spheres that could hardly be more different: here the wealthy, educated Jewish Southern lady, there the Black employee from the lower class in an era when racial segregation in the USA still almost unavoidably defined people's everyday lives. Directed by: Frank Matthus With: Doris Kunstmann, Ron Williams, Benjamin Kernen