Endspurt

Story

Synopsis

The author Peter Ustinov has called his work "Endspurt" a "biographical adventure". Biographical because the somewhat ambitious but later successful writer Sam Kinsale meets here as a twenty-, forty- and sixty-year-old. The interesting thing about this film, however, is that the four Sams are confronted with each other. The diversity of an eighty-year-old life becomes transparent. At the age of 20, Sam Kinsale loves the young Stella and is determined to marry her. But 20 years later, he is fed up with the marriage and wants to leave her. But he doesn't because she is expecting a child. As a sixty-year-old, he is constantly making compromises both in his work as a writer and in his personal life.

Director

Harry Meyen

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

15 November 1970

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Heinz Rühmann

  Sam Kinsale mit 80 Jahren

• Otto Graf

  Sam Kinsale mit 60 Jahren

• Rolf Henniger

  Sam Kinsale mit 40 Jahren

• Joachim Ansorge

  Sam Kinsale mit 20 Jahren

• Emmy Burg

  Stella Kinsale

• Eva Katharina Schultz

  Stella Kinsale mit 40 Jahren

• Veronika Bayer

  Stella Kinsale mit 20 Jahren

• 

  Fritz Tillmann

  Reginald Kinsale

• 

  Ingrid van Bergen

  Clarice und Ada

• Dieter Ranspach

  Jimmy Kinsale