Barfuss

Barfuss English Barefoot is a romantic comedy film by German actor and director Til Schweiger released in 2005. It tells the story of Nick Til Schweiger, a hedonistic bachelor, who helps and eventually falls in love with Leila, an escaped mental patient portrayed by Johanna Wokalek. Schweiger also cowrote the screenplay which is based on American screenwriter Stephen Zotnowskis original screenplay and story Barefoot, itself an adaptation of Lila An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig.

The life of Nick Keller Til Schweiger can hardly be called well sorted. He stumbles from one temporary job to the next, and he has very serious problems with Heinrich, his rich and influential stepfather, as well as with his brother Viktor. Nicks latest temporary job is as a cleaner in a psychiatric clinic, where he prevents the barefooted patient Leila Wokalek from committing suicide just as he is being fired from this latest employment.Leilas story is also complex. The first nineteen years of her life she had been confined at home by her mother. She has been hospitalized in the clinic after her mothers death, but is desperate to leave. However, emotionally Leila is still a child. For example, everything that she is told, she takes literally and she dislikes physical contact with strangers. The unexpected consequence of Nicks saving Leila from hanging herself is that Leila secretly follows her saviour, in her nightdress and once again barefooted and she appears in front of his door that night. After Leila adamantly refuses go back to the clinic, she and Nick go on a road trip together in order to attend his brothers wedding to Nicks exgirlfriend. During the trip the relationship between the two deepens significantly. However, after serious disputes with his family, Nick once again tries to hospitalize Leila. As a result, he has to confess to himself that he has fallen in love with her. ........

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