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Zum Sterben schön

Deutschland 1997 Spielfilm

Good Enough To Die For

Peter Gillitzer′s only interest is for a local Munich football club. When he inherits an ailing funeral parlour, he soon manages to turn it into a financial success by way of unusual promotional measures like coffin auctions.

 

But he doesn′t want to become rich at all, he just wants to buy his beloved football club the striker they so urgently need. His business idea - burial as the last big event in a person′s existence - brings him together with people whose lives are changed by winning a coffin: an ordinary office-worker wants to climb the career ladder for his wife′s sake, but almost ruins himself with his amateurish attempt at mobbing. A woman from an upper-class background leaves her family overnight to fulfil her dream of being a psychotherapist; but she becomes the victim of her own advice. And the last working day of a long-serving porter at a brewery sees his colleagues think up a devilish surprise...

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Friedemann Fromm

Screenplay

  • Peter Probst

Director of photography

  • Johannes Kirchlechner

Editing

  • Ulla Möllinger

Music

  • Georg Karger

Cast

  • Christina Rainer
    Mira Höhn
  • Michaela May
    Steffi Sieber
  • Andreas Patton
    Peter Gillitzer
  • Maximilian Häusler
    Adrian
  • Fred Stillkrauth
    Edmund Eberharter
  • Saskia Vester
    Rosi
  • Tilo Prückner
    Ernst Pregler
  • Natalia Wörner
    Johanna Häberle
  • Katarina Klaffs
    Evi Leitner
  • Jürgen Tonkel
    Max Leitner

Production company

  • MTM Cineteve GmbH (München-Geiselgasteig)
  • Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) (München)

Producer

  • Gloria Burkert

Alle Credits

Director

  • Friedemann Fromm

Assistant director

  • Jochen Gosch

Screenplay

  • Peter Probst

Director of photography

  • Johannes Kirchlechner

Assistant camera

  • Philipp Geigel

Set design

  • Roger Katholing

Costume design

  • Andrea Spanier

Editing

  • Ulla Möllinger

Sound

  • Roman Schwartz

Casting

  • An Dorthe Braker

Music

  • Georg Karger

Cast

  • Christina Rainer
    Mira Höhn
  • Michaela May
    Steffi Sieber
  • Andreas Patton
    Peter Gillitzer
  • Maximilian Häusler
    Adrian
  • Fred Stillkrauth
    Edmund Eberharter
  • Saskia Vester
    Rosi
  • Tilo Prückner
    Ernst Pregler
  • Natalia Wörner
    Johanna Häberle
  • Katarina Klaffs
    Evi Leitner
  • Jürgen Tonkel
    Max Leitner
  • Amalie Bizer
    Carla Bergius
  • Jacques Breuer
    Frank Kuhn
  • Irm Hermann
    Irma Pregler

Production company

  • MTM Cineteve GmbH (München-Geiselgasteig)
  • Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) (München)

Producer

  • Gloria Burkert

Producer (TV)

  • Silvia Koller (Bayerischer Rundfunk [BR])

Unit production manager

  • Ulrike Hauff
Duration:
100 min
Format:
s16mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 24.10.1997, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 03.02.1999, ARD

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Zum Sterben schön

Versions

Original

Duration:
100 min
Format:
s16mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 24.10.1997, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 03.02.1999, ARD

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