Germany's top television cabaret comics (including director Hans Christian Müller) team up for a scathing satire of the bourgeoisie at work and play, set in a giant insurance firm in the midst of its annual Fasching celebration (the German equivalent of Carnival). Leftist cabaret star Gerhard Polt heads the cast as Ferdinand, a Bavarian truck-driver who has been suckered into purchasing an insurance policy of record proportions, the payments for which will come to more than half his salary. When he sets out to find the salesman who perpetrated the expensive insult, Ferdinand is ushered into a new world of power, protected by a labyrinthine office structure and peopled by an enormous staff of oddballs, from the bosses down to the delivery boy. The result, as Variety's Ron Holloway notes, is "German-style Marx Brothers.... a very funny and quite pungent comedy."