The highly individualistic and frequently outlandish Bavarian filmmaker and actor Herbert Achternbusch contributes three films to this series (see also January 17). In Rita, Ritter, Achternbusch appears only as an “extra” in the story of a playwright who is unsuccessful in love and work until the day He becomes She, taking the name of an old and still adored lover, Rita. When in this female incarnation she meets the original Rita, who happens to be performing in one of her now-successful plays, love blossoms forth as in days of old, except that now both are women. “The script is one of the wittiest and most entertaining since (Achternbusch's) Bye Bye Bavaria (1977),” writes Variety's Ron Holloway. A highlight of the film is the lovers' walk through Paris to the Eiffel Tower, “their love illuminating God and the world.”