Schultze Gets the Blues

Directed and written by Michael Schorr, Schultze Gets the Blues centers around Schultze (Horst Krause), a middle-aged accordionist whose lust for life is renewed after hearing a Cajun zydeco riff on the radio. Despite the fact that using his accordion for anything other than polka would be ...more

In a small German town where time passes by the raising and lowering of the railroad crossing bar, three aging mine workers find things have gotten even slower since their involuntary early retirement. Until one of them, Schultze, decides to pursue his accordion hobby down previously untraveled avenues, and his pace quickens ever so imperceptibly. Michael Schorr's Schultze Gets the Blues is masterful at painting portraits of humdrum pleasures and minor sorrows, cheery even when it's gloomy, and ...more