Original author: Raymond Federman (USA *1928)
Translator: Peter Torberg
Editor: Götz Naleppa
Production: BR 1991 83 min. - adaptation literature 
Director(s): Götz Naleppa
Composer(s): Joachim Litty, Ute Kannenberg

Tags: Love

Content:
‚The story of Moinous and Sucette. Their love story. The intensity of the hope it contains. The fierceness of the possible disappointment. They meet for the first time in New York, on an afternoon in March. Or maybe February. But they don't speak that day. They smile at each other, that's all.'
The love story of Sucette and Moinous begins with a smile.
Such a smile is full of possibilities and holds just as many possible stories. Sad, hopeful and also debauched ones. Raymond Federmann plays with these possibilities in his new, again largely autobiographical radio play. He tells his story differently again and again, and always - as in his other plays - narration and the difficulty of narration itself becomes the theme.
‚That is why I constantly refuse to tell a story - no matter how hard a writer tries, no matter what form he resorts to, he will never be able to give shape to the chaos of life. Yet I try.' (Raymond Federmann). 

Contributors:
Moinous: Steve Karier; Sucette: Leslie Malton; Narrator 1: Peter Fricke; Narrator 2: Kornelia Boje; Sucette's father: Wolfgang Hinze; Sucette's mother: Eleonore Noelle; Sucette's brother-in-law: Detlef Kügow; Sucette's sister: Christin Marquitan; Polizistund 2: Andreas Neumann; Wirt: Hans Wyprächtiger

Prizes/Awards: Radio Play of the Month 07/1991

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