Author: Raymond Federman (USA 1928)
Genre: Radio play
Production: BR 1991
Director: Götz Naleppa
Editing: Götz Naleppa
Music: Ute Kannenberg, Joachim Litty
Length: 83 min.

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
Policeman 1 and 2: Andreas Neumann
Host: Hans Wyprächtiger

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 m New York, on an afternoon in March. Or maybe February. But they don't speak to each other 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 - the telling and the difficulty of telling itself becomes the theme. - 'That's why I consistently refuse to tell a story - no matter how 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).

Comments: Awards: Radio Play of the Month