Die Einsamkeit der Krokodile
The Loneliness of the Crocodiles
If, as a child, you play the violin in the butcher′s shop of your parents, while your unmoved father cuts up animals for slaughter, then you′re facing a life full of contradictions, a life not easy to lead and certainly not without danger.
Guenther, an intellectual son of a butcher from East Westphalia, is considered an eccentric in his village, and not only because of his musical talent. He antagonizes his parents because at night he takes out the farmer′s pigs for a walk, in order to show them something other than the butcher′s bench. He strongly irritates his professor because he insists on writing about "Plato and the Apaches", and he earns the scorn of his peers because he is not interested in the girls from the village. But is this gentle, shy crankiness truly reason enough to voluntarily leave this life?
To Elias, a young journalist from Hamburg, the alleged suicide of a distant cousin seems far too neat an end to a weird loner. So he travels to the village to find out more. When, of all people, he attracts the attentions of his landlady Heike, he has all the local men against him and finds himself in the role of the suspicious outsider. Nor are Guenther′s parents pleased that posthumously somebody should show interest in their "abnormal" son. But Elias is unflustered and follows the few leads he can find. Via bizarre detours they lead him to Mary, a zestful African American. She tells him the story of their unusual love ...
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Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Elias
- Günther Sperl
- Tante Gisela
- Heike
- Roland
- Friede
- Helmut
- Mary
- Dr. Wiemann
- 1. Professor
Production company
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Script supervisor
Assistant director (other)
Screenplay
based on
Director of photography
Assistant camera
Clapper loader
Steadycam operator
Still photography
Lighting design
Key grip
Set design
Property master
Stand-by props
Construction manager
Title
Make-up artist
Costume design
Editing
Assistant editor
Sound
Sound assistant
Foley artist
Audio mixing
Music
Conductor
Music performer
Cast
- Elias
- Günther Sperl
- Tante Gisela
- Heike
- Roland
- Friede
- Helmut
- Mary
- Dr. Wiemann
- 1. Professor
- 2. Professor
Production company
in co-production with
Producer (TV)
Unit production manager
Location manager
Original distributor
Funding
Shoot
- 20.09.1999 - 06.11.1999: Ostwestfalen: Kreis Höxter, Münster, Paderborn, Detmold
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 04.09.2000, 85718, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 27.10.2000, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
Kinostart (DE): 17.05.2001;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 27.08.2004, ZDF
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Die Einsamkeit der Krokodile
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 04.09.2000, 85718, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 27.10.2000, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
Kinostart (DE): 17.05.2001;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 27.08.2004, ZDF