Eine sonderbare Liebe (A Strange Love)

1984, color, 104 min. Feature
Dir.: Lothar Warneke
Script: Wolfram Witt
Camera: Thomas Plenert
Music: Jürgen Ecke
Cast: Christine Schorn, Jörg Gudzuhn, Christa Lehmann, Annemone Haase, Mike Gregor, Franz Viehmann, et al.
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Synopsis:

After a hot and steamy company party, Sibylle and Harald, both in their late thirties, spend the night together.  They meet each other later and resolve to enter into a strictly intellectual relationship.  He is a widower with two sons, with the younger son just entering school.  She is single and relatively satisfied in her relationship with a married colleague.  Suddenly, Sibylle quits her job at the company's staff canteen and delves into her new self-appointed task with fiery fervor:  to pep up Harald's family life, turning his house, garden, etc. inside out.  Harald, a quiet man used to peace and his own habits, starts to flee from her on a daily basis.  Without love, she figures, the relationship will not work out.  But it does not take long for the pair to miss each other's presence.