Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
- Awards
- 11 wins & 6 nominations
Burghart Klaußner
- Hardenberg
- (as Burghart Klaussner)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe song "Where's The Real Sky" is credited to Jeff Cole on the soundtrack and was mentioned in the movie as a favorite artist of Jan and Jule. Jeff Cole is a pseudonym for the score-writer, Andreas Wodraschke. The singer is his friend Sam Genders of London.
- GoofsThe Mercedes that Jule keys in the parking garage is also used as Hardenberg's Mercedes when he arrives at his house right before catching Jule and Jan. You can see this by matching the license plate to each scene.
- Quotes
[last words]
Note on Wall: "Some People Never Change."
- Crazy creditsThere is an additional take after the credits related to the last project of the three protagonists.
- Alternate versionsAll foreign (non-German) theatrical versions omit a scene in the ending. The reason for this is that the scene had not been finished at the time the movie was shown at the Cannes film festival. But the distribution rights had already been sold to 44 countries and the director didn't want to force local distributors to take the new ending.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Free Rainer (2007)
- SoundtracksDarts Of Pleasure
by Franz Ferdinand
Featured review
there *are* good German/Austrian movies, yippee!
I went to see the film completely unprepared, and I left the theatre rather euphoric. I liked the film because of the amiable story, the roughly-sketched but believable characters (even if we don't learn too much about their backgrounds) and the funny, witty dialog. And last but not least the surprise in the end -- until three minutes to the end I wouldn't have had an idea how to end a story like this.
The four main characters were cast exceptionally well, and the dialog -- whew! Yes, the kidnappers seem very naive (so does the manager, btw, in another way), and the words they use are heavy with cliché, but it's not a message of any kind that's new and interesting. It's what happens beyond words: I've rarely seen people in a movie talk and talk so much about convictions and ideology, but all the really important things happen inside them and without words.
So go and watch this film but don't jump on the political statements. Things might have some more layers here.
The four main characters were cast exceptionally well, and the dialog -- whew! Yes, the kidnappers seem very naive (so does the manager, btw, in another way), and the words they use are heavy with cliché, but it's not a message of any kind that's new and interesting. It's what happens beyond words: I've rarely seen people in a movie talk and talk so much about convictions and ideology, but all the really important things happen inside them and without words.
So go and watch this film but don't jump on the political statements. Things might have some more layers here.
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- br-19
- Jan 11, 2005
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- Also known as
- Eğitmenler
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $175,493
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,075
- Jul 24, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $8,152,859
- Runtime2 hours 7 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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