Schultze Gets the Blues

Schultze Gets the Blues is a 2003 film, the first directed and written by Michael Schorr.

For years, he has played traditional polka music on his accordion, but a series of upheavals in his life inspire an interest in American Zydeco and Cajun music. Though being afraid of travelling to the United States at the beginning he accepts his music clubs wish to represent it at a German folk music festival in New Braunfels, Texas.But instead of appearing there he chooses to travel in a motor boat around the countryside despite speaking little English, immersing himself in the music and culture of the Bayou. Finally, among his newly found friends he becomes very sick and presumably dies. Back in Teutschenthal a funeral is held for Schultze which turns into a decent and mildly happy celebration of his life Herr, lehre uns Bedenken, dass wir alle einmal sterben mssen, auf das wir im Leben klug werden Lord, teach us to understand we all have to die sometime, that we become wiser in our lives Psalm 90,12. ........

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