GFF26: THE HOLY GRILL

Australian premiere

Extrawurst

Adapted from the highly successful German stage play, The Holy Grill is a hilarious, irreverent and acerbically witty comedy directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller (The Keeper) and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast led by Hape Kerkeling and Christoph Maria Herbst (A Family Dilemma).

At a routine general meeting of a tranquil, provincial tennis club, Heribert (Hape Kerkeling), long-time chairman of the club, and his ambitious deputy Matthias (Friedrich Mücke, Balloon) put forward a simple vote on the purchase of a barbeque grill for the next club party.

However, Melanie (Anja Knauer) unexpectedly ignites a cultural clash when she suggests buying a second grill for her doubles partner Erol (Fahri Yardim), the club’s only Turkish member, because devout Muslims cannot eat food cooked alongside pork. What starts as a thoughtful gesture quickly snowballs into a heated debate about much more than a grill but instead, roasting each other. As atheists are pitted against believers, progressives against traditionalists, soon the discussion escalates until the club is brought to the brink of collapse.

German with English subtitles