GORILLAS
"The joke is the hole through which the truth whistles."
Characters
Frank Locke – mid-fifties, manager of a large real estate company.
Martina Locke – around fifty years old, his wife.
Hendrik Bär – department head at television. Frank's friend from school.
Xenia Mauer – Thirty, Frank's assistant
Location: Living and dining room in the Locke house.
ACTION
Behind the perfectly staged facade of a luxurious villa in a stark Zen style, a naked struggle for survival is brewing.
Frank Locke, in his mid-fifties and an unscrupulous top manager of a real estate company, can only function with the help of a dangerous cockpit of stimulants and tranquilizers.
His wife Martina escapes from chronic loneliness into eccentric role-playing games – and initially appears in a geisha costume.
The marriage is over, mutual respect long since shattered. When Frank discovers that Martina is cheating on him with none other than his old childhood friend Hendrik Bär – a sleazy media charlatan – the thin veneer of civilization completely crumbles.
Spurred on by the cynical observational skills of his young assistant Xenia, Frank decides to make a murderous example.
Welcome to the zoo of human vanities, where the alpha males bare their teeth!