Thomas Gratzer

The novel “Fitness” by anarchic poet Stefanie Sargnagel is to be made into a film. The only condition on the part of film funding: Sargnagel should play herself. Surfacing alongside the author are numerous actors from the Viennese cultural landscape in cameo appearances to satirically dissect the Austrian culture industry and its mechanisms.

The couple Franz and Maria are newly in love, but then he has to join the army and she goes on leave to Italy, from which she returns to the village in Styria unintentionally pregnant.