Ignatz & Lotte(1995)

Ignatz & Lotte is a drama set during the year surrounding the first Gulf War, charting one family's unraveling under the weight of work, politics, and personal desire. Ignatz juggles a day job at a television news station with volunteer nights at an alternative cable news program, leaving little room for his wife Lotte and their young son Ewan. When Ignatz's friendship with colleague Kenji becomes romantic, the fragile balance collapses. Lotte confronts the dissolution of her marriage—driven by forces both global and intimate—while Ignatz watches his son wave goodbye from a taxi window, a moment that crystallizes the emotional toll of the era. The film explores how external pressures and internal betrayals reshape a household caught between ambition and family.