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MONEY
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Shot for just $2.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
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Reclaim Your Brain
"Your TV lies"
2007 2h 9m DE
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★6.7TMDB · 100★6.7IMDB · 4,703
ComedyDrama
Synopsis
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Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
“Your TV lies”
Cast
Moritz Bleibtreu
Rainer
Elsa Sophie Gambard
Pegah
Gregor Bloéb
Maiwald
Milan Peschel
Philipp
Simone Hanselmann
Anna
Franziska Knuppe
Maiwalds Freundin
Thorsten Feller
Kreativling
Vinzenz Kiefer
Junger Mann - Titanic Show
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Hans Weingartner
- Writers
- Katharina Held, Hans Weingartner
- Languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
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ERA
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Released 19 years ago.
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DIRECTOR
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Directed by Hans Weingartner, shot by Christine A. Maier. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
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DIRECTOR
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Editor Andreas Wodraschke 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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Moritz Bleibtreu and Elsa Sophie Gambard and Gregor Bloéb carry the top of the cast.
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FACT
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Marketing tagline: "Your TV lies".
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WILD
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IMDB entry: tt0810868 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Hans Weingartner directs. Christine A. Maier behind the camera. Andreas Wodraschke cuts. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in German.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Shot for just $2.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
- 2Released 19 years ago.
- 3Directed by Hans Weingartner, shot by Christine A. Maier. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 4Editor Andreas Wodraschke shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 5Moritz Bleibtreu and Elsa Sophie Gambard and Gregor Bloéb carry the top of the cast.
- 6Marketing tagline: "Your TV lies".
- 7IMDB entry: tt0810868 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 8Classified under 18 themes, including "media tycoon", "friendship", "suicide", "berlin, germany".
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Christine A. Maier
- Editing
- Andreas Wodraschke
- Production design
- Udo Kramer
- Costume design
- Thomas Oláh
- Makeup / hair
- Martha Ruess
- Sound
- Stefan Soltau
- Runtime
- 129 min · 2h 9m
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2,500,000
- Original language
- DE
- Certification (US)
- 12
- IMDB rating
- 6.7/10 · 4,703 votes
Awards
2 wins & 4 nominations
Also by
Hans Weingartner
Production companies
Who made it
Coop99 Filmproduktion
AT
- KA
Kahuuna Films
DE
ORF
AT
ARD
DE
Key crew
- ProducerBarbara Albert
- EditorAndreas Wodraschke
- Sound DesignerStefan Soltau
- ProducerHans Weingartner
- ProducerJessica Hausner
- ProducerAntonin Svoboda
- Costume DesignThomas Oláh
- Line ProducerKarsten Aurich
- Makeup ArtistMartha Ruess
- Production DesignUdo Kramer
- Line ProducerBruno Wagner
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- media tycoon
- friendship
- suicide
- berlin, germany
- assassination
- drug abuse
- sense of guilt
- alcohol
- gun rampage
- solidarity
- bathing
- blackmail
- loyalty
- cocaine
- manipulation of the media
- arrest
- car crash
- hospital
Release history · US
When it landed
- Digital2007-10-2812
Also known as
International titles
- Un juego de inteligenciaES
