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Mängelexemplar

Deutschland 2014-2016 Spielfilm

Too Hard To Handle

It's no surprise when Karo is fired. She is loud, too emotional and egocentric, says her friend Anna. Karo is not one to give up easily, though: she decides to change and goes into therapy. Although her therapist advises her to keep calm, Karo throws herself into it. She wants to be Super Patient, catch up on the mourning she hasn't done, put her mother on the spot, and break up with her boyfriend Philipp. But it's all too much in one go, her strong façade breaks and she becomes depressed, to the extent that neither her pal Max nor her grandmother Bille can help her. It is only when her mother takes Karo in that she slowly pulls herself together again. She now declares war on her crisis, because "depression is a fucking event."

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Laura Lackmann

Screenplay

  • Laura Lackmann

Director of photography

  • Sten Mende

Editing

  • Gergana Voigt

Music

  • Jan Weigel

Cast

  • Claudia Eisinger
    Karo
  • Katja Riemann
    Luzy
  • Barbara Schöne
    Oma Bille
  • Laura Tonke
    Anna
  • Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider
    Max
  • Maren Kroymann
    Annette
  • Christoph Letkowski
    Philipp
  • Fabian Passamonte
    Schnurrbert
  • Joachim Paul Assböck
    Olaf Karcher
  • Emelie Harbrecht
    Karos inneres Kind

Production company

  • UFA Fiction GmbH (Potsdam)

Producer

  • Jochen Laube
  • Leif Alexis

Alle Credits

Director

  • Laura Lackmann

Assistant director

  • Tina Rexilius

Script supervisor

  • Manuela Brunner

Screenplay

  • Laura Lackmann

based on

  • Sarah Kuttner (Roman)

Director of photography

  • Sten Mende

Assistant camera

  • Yvonne Geiler

Steadycam operator

  • Niv Abootalebi
  • Martin Bock

Lighting design

  • Marc Lubosch

Key grip

  • Carsten Eisenach

Production design

  • Thomas Göldner

Set dresser

  • Frank Noack

Property master

  • Markus Wegner

Make-up artist

  • Daniel Schröder

Costume design

  • Juliane Maier

Editing

  • Gergana Voigt

Sound

  • Oliver Stahn

Sound assistant

  • Janek Kemter

Music

  • Jan Weigel

Cast

  • Claudia Eisinger
    Karo
  • Katja Riemann
    Luzy
  • Barbara Schöne
    Oma Bille
  • Laura Tonke
    Anna
  • Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider
    Max
  • Maren Kroymann
    Annette
  • Christoph Letkowski
    Philipp
  • Fabian Passamonte
    Schnurrbert
  • Joachim Paul Assböck
    Olaf Karcher
  • Emelie Harbrecht
    Karos inneres Kind
  • Isabel Schosnig
    Dr. Kleve
  • Sebastian Schwarz
    Arzt
  • Detlev Buck
    Karos Vater Micki

Production company

  • UFA Fiction GmbH (Potsdam)

in co-production with

  • Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) (Berlin + Potsdam)

in association with

  • Arte Deutschland TV GmbH (Baden-Baden)
  • Cine+ Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin)
  • UFA Cinema GmbH (Berlin/München)

Producer

  • Jochen Laube
  • Leif Alexis

Producer (TV)

  • Cooky Ziesche (RBB / Arte)
  • Dagmar Mielke (rbb / Arte)

Line producer

  • Michael Jungfleisch

Unit production manager

  • Konstantinos Kapsalos

Location manager

  • Paul Werner

Original distributor

  • X Verleih AG (Berlin)

Funding

  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)

Shoot

    • 21.10.2014 - 28.11.2014: Berlin
Duration:
112 min
Format:
DCP, 1:2,39
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 09.05.2016, Berlin, Kulturbrauerei;
Kinostart (DE): 12.05.2016

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Mängelexemplar

Versions

Original

Duration:
112 min
Format:
DCP, 1:2,39
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 09.05.2016, Berlin, Kulturbrauerei;
Kinostart (DE): 12.05.2016

Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis 2016
  • Lola, Beste weibliche Nebenrolle
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