Schultze!

My beloved Jeopardy was pre-empted tonight by the NBA playoffs or finals or whatever. Yawn. I'm home alone with Lucy. Pat's working and Wa went up to Southpark.
I popped in one of my favorite movies, Schultze gets the blues. It's a German movie that won 10 International film awards. It's a slow movie with English subtitles. Okay, it's REALLY slow, but I love it all the same.
It's the story of Schultze and his two buddies, Jurgen and Manfred who get early retirement from the salt mine. Schultze is bored out of his mind and finds some Cajun music on the radio late one night. He picks up his accordian and learns to play it. He later plays it in the music festival in his town. This part of the movie is very Sons of Norwayesque.
This movie makes me laugh - it makes me cry. A nice tale of the human spirit. Schultze is one cool dude.