A gallery of characters, the portrait of a priest dominated by his demons and game of apparences, a young Carl Ridders in a role reminding, maybe too much , characters offered by Helmut Berger and family problems, familiar, reduced at basic traits .
A film defined by the encounter with pieces from work of Hugo Claus , who, as author of novel inspired the film, as director of it, too, seems force the note , offering , in high measure, only a sarcastic perspective about couple malfunction and an end reminding seagull by Cehov and having as essential good point the portrait of Nathalie offered by Ann Petersen.
A dark film, preserving many details from Cehov universe,