Annette Frier takes on the role of single mother Angie in the movie and is enthusiastic because “the movie deals with a difficult subject with great lightness. This combination is rare.” Katharina Thalbach, alias Greta, also sees the appeal of “Die Schlikkerfrauen” in “responding with a little utopia that you can also laugh about” and hopes “that there will be a tiny satisfaction for everyone.”

Other roles are played by Oliver Korittke, Tino Mewes, Catherine Fleming, Johann von Bülow, August Wittgenstein and many others. The film is directed by Uwe Janson (DER MINISTER, DANNI LOWINSKI), who also wrote the screenplay in collaboration with David Ungureit, which – inspired by the determined commitment of affected employees after the Schlecker insolvency – was based on free motifs.

For Joachim Kosack, producer and managing director of UFA FICTION, the film, for which former employees of the insolvent drugstore chain were also recruited as consultants, posed a very special challenge: “It was important to us not to ridicule the fate of the real Schlecker women at any time. On the contrary: our film takes the desperation of these women, who were deprived of their livelihood from one day to the next, seriously. The Schlecker women have become synonymous with people who, in what was perhaps the biggest crisis of their lives, summoned up the strength to fight back. We want to tell the story of this extraordinary achievement, of solidarity and the will to demand one’s right to social justice.”