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Marianne (Marianne Sägebrecht) has a little trouble getting dates. Heaven knows why: she weighs in the low 200s, has a face as remorseless as a gulag commandant's and works as a corpse dresser in a Munich mortuary. Then one day she lays eyes on Eisi (Eisi Gulp), a dishy young subway conductor. Lust at first sight has rarely been so transforming. Marianne's stolid features crack into a swooning smile. Armed with subway schedules and candy bars and tarted up in a dress that must have come from Friedrich's of Heidelberg, she prowls the underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up, Old and Fat | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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