I'm Your Man

2021 1h 48m DE

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6.7

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★6.7TMDB · 382

Science FictionComedyRomance

Synopsis

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Alma is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom, a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Maren Eggert
Alma Felser
Dan Stevens
Tom
Sandra Hüller
Employee
Hans Löw
Julian
Wolfgang Hübsch
Alma's Father
Annika Meier
Cora Felser
Falilou Seck
Dean Roger
Jürgen Tarrach
Dr. Stuber

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Maria Schrader
Writers: Emma Braslavsky, Maria Schrader, Jan Schomburg
Languages: German, English
Countries: Germany

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ERA

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Released 5 years ago.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: German, English.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Maria Schrader, shot by Benedict Neuenfels. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 6

DIRECTOR

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Editor Hansjörg Weißbrich 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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Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens and Sandra Hüller carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 6

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt13087796 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Maria Schrader directs. Benedict Neuenfels behind the camera. Hansjörg Weißbrich cuts. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in German, English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 5 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: German, English.
3Directed by Maria Schrader, shot by Benedict Neuenfels. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Hansjörg Weißbrich shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens and Sandra Hüller carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt13087796 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Classified under 22 themes, including "berlin, germany", "artificial intelligence (a.i.)", "love", "loneliness".

The technical file

Cinematography: Benedict Neuenfels
Editing: Hansjörg Weißbrich
Production design: Cora Pratz
Costume design: Anette Guther
Makeup / hair: Andrea Allroggen
VFX supervisor: Florian Obrecht
Sound: Adrian Baumeister
Runtime: 108 min · 1h 48m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $1,090,661
Original language: DE
Certification (US): R
IMDB: I'm Your Man (2021)

Awards

Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance
German Film Award for Best Feature Film

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CinemaSerf2022-03-27
★ 7/10
Aside from being a very handsome man, Dan Stevens herein proves he can also make a decent fist of playing a German robot too! Annoying, isn't he? Maren Eggert is a scientist who, in order to secure funding, agrees to take part in an experiment by which she is partnered with an android programmed to satisfy her "every" need. Naturally sceptical, she has him in her apartment and they embark on quite a few lively escapades as their relationship develops, and he is introduced - with varying degrees of success - to her family and friends. It's a gently paced comedy, this - with a fun script, two really engaging performances and in a curious sort of fashion, it is a little though provoking. If we could order our ideal partner from Amazon, just how perfect would we want them to be? The ending was just a touch to cheesy for me, but overall I still quite enjoyed it.
badelf2026-07-08
★ 7/10
Summary: 7/10: thoughtful, well-acted sci-fi that questions what love and longing really mean in an age when companionship might be manufactured to order. This is another awesome film in the growing catalog of movies that asks the question: what are the possibilities for emotional connection between humans and androids? The science fiction romance subgenre has been dominated for decades by fembots designed to fulfill male fantasies, but Maria Schrader's film crucially reverses those gender dynamics, creating space for different questions and observations. For three weeks, she must live with Tom (Dan Stevens), a humanoid robot designed to be her perfect partner. Maria Schrader does a great job serving the narrative without getting in the way. The pacing is good, the cinematography and music serve the story, never overwhelming the central relationship. Dan Stevens creates a really credible android with just enough inappropriate facial expressions to make it believable that he's not quite human. The uncanniness is subtle, perfectly calibrated; you can't quite put your finger on why Tom seems slightly off, but the wrongness registers. And Maren Eggert, who is absolutely resistant to the relationship in the beginning, develops a character arc that seems real enough, albeit a little too compressed. She eventually manages to teach her android that human relationships are never neat, never tidy, never predictable, and ultimately, probably not programmable. Eggert won the Berlin Film Festival's Best Acting Performance award for the role, and the film itself won four German Film Awards including Best Film. The film's conclusion remains appropriately open-ended, as ambiguous as the hard problem of consciousness itself, refusing easy answers about whether artificial beings can truly feel or whether human loneliness justifies the creation of synthetic companions. Worth the watch for yet another take on human-android relationships, this time from a female perspective too often absent from the genre.