Der Papst ist kein Jeansboy

The actor, columnist, author, moderator, failed pastoral assistant, self-confessed gay sadomasochist, the total work of art Hermes Phettberg, who has always relentlessly and openly addressed his life, his suffering and the world, provides insights into his current existence. Despite his decline, Phettberg has remained a charismatic, unique “pyre” (as he calls himself), who documents his slowly passing life daily on the internet and in his weekly column in the Viennese city magazine “Falter” and fights for survival as Austria's best-known welfare recipient. Sobo Swobodnik shows this daily struggle of a former star who became a patronized outsider – with three strokes, a heart attack, extreme bladder weakness and an irrepressible will to live – as an impressive passion play in black and white.