A Heavy Heart

It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

[1] The former East German professional boxer Herbert earns his living as a debt collector and bouncer.

As in Stuber's previous works Von Hunden und Pferden and Teenage Angst, Peter Matjasko was responsible for the camera.

Actor Peter Kurth worked up 16 kilograms of muscle mass for the role and starved it off during filming to portray Herbert's decline.

In the classic American boxing film, he says, there is a young guy from nowhere who works hard, fights his way to triumph, and wins recognition and happiness.