After a social drama, an Asian-set love story and a children’s movie, director Detlev Buck returns to his favoured genre, the comedy. WOMAN IN LOVE is a German take on the classic Tootsie. An out-of-work actor puts on some pumps and a stuffed bra to win a female role and ends up with more than he bargained for.
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It’s a familiar but successful formula. WOMAN IN LOVE topped the German box office charts, even beating out Tom Cruise’s new Mission Impossible film.