Germany's Seafaring Seniors
A film about growing old in Germany, with day-trippers Mimi, Meta and Herta the stars
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"Delightful to see these old ladies from Hamburg enjoying their twilight years, fiercely determined to escape the melancholy of their everyday routine."
The newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau
Written and directed by Thomas Seekamp and Jens Fintelmann
Camera by Jasper Marquardt. Sound by Oliver Naske
Edited by Sophie Kill. Editor NDR: Margarete Runte-Plewnia
30 minutes. First broadcast September 20, 1996 on 'ARD-exclusiv',
NDR 1996