Desc: A Comedy of Tears: Directed by Marko Sosic. With Katerina Antler, Ivo Barisic, Tina Gunzek, Mojca Lavric. Albert is an elderly, cynical, choleric racist who lives in a wheelchair in a spacious flat in Trieste, surrounded by his solitude of obsessive memory fragments. Ida, an educated middle-aged lady, comes in from Istria twice a week to clean Albert's flat, cook for him, bathe him, and be his only company.