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 considered a sacrilege by his family — Schultze’s father was considered legendary in the polka circuit — a newly invigorated Schultze jumps at the chance to change his musical style and takes it a step further by learning how to cook jambalaya and saving money for a trip to the United States. Despite more than a few unseen barriers, Schultze makes the trip from Germany to America, where he takes on Texas and the Louisiana bayous with an unprecedented zest. Schultze Gets the Blues also features Harald Warmbrunn, Karl Fred Mueller, Ursula Schucht, and Hannelore Schubert., Cultures clash in this tuneful and amiable character study that follows a music-loving retiree (Horst Krause), a German accordion player, who undertakes a road trip to Louisiana after he becomes enamored with zydeco music. Written and directed by Michael Schorr. Harald Warmbrunn, Karl-Fred Muller, Ursula Schucht, Hannelore Schubert., Polka player Schultze falls in love with a new style of music after a chance aural encounter., Schultze has spent his whole life in a small town in Saxon-Anhalt near the river Saale. Schultze’s life, divided between work and the pub, the allotment, folk music and fishing, is rudely interrupted when he and his mates Manfred and Jürgen are made redundant. As entropy sets in and maintaining the daily routine deteriorates into a farce, Schultze discovers a life on the other side of the hill.