"HerzHaft" is not only a really bad play on words involving the German terms for heart and jail, but is also a 15-minute short film written and directed by Martin Busker 8 years ago. Busker still works in film today and same can be said about lead actor Cacciapuoti. The rest of the cast pretty much don't. Short films about homosexuality have been quite famous for a while and I guess that is also why this one is not entirely unknown. A football coach and one of his players have an affair, but the mother finds out and not only the relationship of the two guys is affected, but the coach is also in real trouble as the boy is still only 15 years old. There was one really bad scene where the boy stands topless there and pours a bottle of water on his chest very early in the film. That was quite a lowpoint. What I liked more is that they did not go for a stupid feel-good ending this time, but stayed realistic. Still, all in all, nothing memorable about this quarter of an hour. Not recommended.
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