Character Relationship Map: Copacabana

Characters

• Herbert Schubert (played by Bruno Ganz) — protagonist

  Herbert celebrates 35 years of marriage with Maria, surrounded by their children and grandchildren. The children admire their marriage as a model, but the anniversary gathering also reveals that the c...

• Maria Schubert (played by Nicole Heesters) — supporting

  Maria celebrates her 35th wedding anniversary with her husband, Herbert, and their family. Although her children admire their marriage, she has an admirer and plans to leave Herbert after the celebrat...

• Rita (played by Erni Mangold) — supporting

  Rita is Maria's mother, a great-grandmother who attends the family anniversary gathering. She recognizes the younger generation's marital problems and uses the wisdom of age to help resolve them. In p...

• Angelika (played by Christiane Paul) — supporting

  Angelika is married to Harald, and their relationship is in crisis when the family gathers to celebrate Herbert and Maria's anniversary. She is close to having an affair with Jo, her sister Laura's ne...

• Mark Schubert (played by Devid Striesow) — supporting

  Mark is one of Herbert and Maria's children and has been a student for a long time. At the family gathering, he hopes to gain acceptance and respect from his girlfriend, Sarah. His struggle to feel ac...

• Harald (played by Wotan Wilke Möhring) — supporting

  Harald is Angelika's husband, and their marriage is experiencing a crisis during the anniversary gathering. Angelika is at risk of having an affair with Jo, Laura's boyfriend, but Rita intervenes befo...

• Dr. Gregor Schwarz (played by Friedrich von Thun) — supporting
• Sarah (played by Liane Forestieri) — supporting

  Sarah is Mark's girlfriend and is part of the family gathering for Herbert and Maria's anniversary. Mark, who has been a student for a long time, wants her to accept and respect him. Their relationshi...