Selbstgespräche

2008 1h 36m DE

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6.6

SOLID

★6.6TMDB · 5

Comedy

Synopsis

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With a smile and beautiful words, you can create trust, build sympathy and sell your counterpart everything within four minutes. Welcome to the call center, the collection point for lifelong dreams in financial straits. If you're young and need money, you've come to the right place under the headset in the small telephone box. Sascha Wegemann has the best prerequisites when he enters the open-plan office of a Cologne call center for the first time. He has a way with words, the 30-year-old is sure of that. After all, he has what it takes to become the biggest presenter on German television, even if he has so far only worked as a crowd-pleaser for a chart show. Reality catches up with Sascha when his girlfriend Astrid becomes pregnant. What is more important, career or family, dream or responsibility? Sascha can't make up his mind.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Johannes Allmayer
Adrian Becher
Maximilian Brückner
Sascha
August Zirner
Richard Harms
Daniel Drewes
Ralf
Antje Widdra
Marie Bremer
Mina Tander
Astrid
Kirsten Block
Gisela Harms
Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp
Alfred Becher

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: André Erkau
Languages: German
Countries: Germany

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ERA

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Released 18 years ago.

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CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by André Erkau, shot by Dirk Morgenstern. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Oliver Grothoff shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Johannes Allmayer and Maximilian Brückner and August Zirner carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1173918 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

André Erkau directs. Dirk Morgenstern behind the camera. Oliver Grothoff cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in German.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 18 years ago.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Directed by André Erkau, shot by Dirk Morgenstern. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Oliver Grothoff shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Johannes Allmayer and Maximilian Brückner and August Zirner carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt1173918 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.