Albert – Warum?: Josef Rödl's village homecoming drama.

"Albert – Warum?" is a homecoming drama from 1978 set in a village in the Upper Palatinate. Director Josef Rödl made the film as his graduation work at the University of Television and Film Munich, shot in his home village of Darshofen with non-professional actors. Albert returns from the "asylum" to his father's farm, only to find that his father has transferred it to a nephew. A outsider known as the "village fool", Albert seeks connection, affection and love – and fails.