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Ein Freund von mir

Deutschland 2004-2006 Spielfilm

A Friend Of Mine

Karl and Hans could hardly be more different. Karl is a young, introverted mathematician who is on his way to becoming the star of an insurance agency. Success seems to fall into his lap; he′s earning good money, has a super flat. The only thing is that he doesn′t seem to care about anything; he has never felt what it is to be happy. His boss desperately tries to get some reaction out of him and sends him off to estimate the risk factor in the tricky rental car business. Karl gets himself a job with a car rental in order to secretly observe the situation. There he meets Hans. Bubbling over with energy and drive, Hans takes Karl into his own world, a world of fast cars, fun and friendships, and the world of Stelle, his princess, the girl he loves and wants to marry. When Hans gets Karl to go on a wild car chase completely naked in two Porsches, Karl finally feel something like happiness and a real friendship with Hans. But he also feels something like love, because he′s never met a woman like Stelle before. Just when Karl is beginning to experience life and happiness for the first time, his friendship with Hans is put to a severe test …

 


Director Sebastian Schipper′s collaboration with co-producer Tom Tykwer goes back to Tykwer′s "Wintersleepeers" and "Run, Lola run" in which Schipper participated as an actor. Tykwer then produced Schipper′s first feature film "Absolute Giganten", which, like the comedy "A Friend of mine", is about male friendships.

Source: 57. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Credits

Director

  • Sebastian Schipper

Screenplay

  • Sebastian Schipper

Director of photography

  • Oliver Bokelberg

Editing

  • Jeffrey Marc Harkavy

Music

  • Gravenhurst
  • Uwe Kirbach (Beratung)

Cast

  • Daniel Brühl
    Karl
  • Jürgen Vogel
    Hans
  • Sabine Timoteo
    Stelle
  • Peter Kurth
    Fernandez
  • Michael Wittenborn
    Naumann
  • Oktay Özdemir
    Theo
  • Steffen Groth
    Frank
  • Jan-Ole Gerster
    Cornelius
  • Jens Münchow
    Manager in Hamburg
  • Alexander Speck
    Schwedtmann

Production company

  • X Filme Creative Pool GmbH (Berlin)

Producer

  • Maria Köpf
  • Tom Tykwer

Alle Credits

Director

  • Sebastian Schipper

Assistant director

  • Scott Kirby

Screenplay

  • Sebastian Schipper

Director of photography

  • Oliver Bokelberg

Assistant camera

  • Thomas Antoszczyk

2nd Camera unit

  • Ergun Cankaya

Titles / Opticals

  • Darius Ghanai

Set design

  • Andrea Kessler (Szenenbild)
  • Thorsten Sabel (Art Director)

Prop master

  • Hanna Solms

Property master

  • Petra Klimek
  • Julia Breitenkamp (Assistenz)

Make-up artist

  • Barbara Kreuzer

Costume design

  • Anette Guther
  • Charlotte Sawatzki

Editing

  • Jeffrey Marc Harkavy

Assistant editor

  • Babette Rosenbaum
  • Eva Knopf

Sound editor

  • Fabian Schmidt (Dialoge)
  • Kai Tebbel (Dialoge)

Sound design

  • Frank Kruse

Sound

  • Erik Seifert

Sound assistant

  • Marc Seifert
  • Björn Marsen

Foley artist

  • Joern Poetzl
  • Carsten Richter
  • Philipp Sellier
  • Hanse Warns

Audio mixing

  • Matthias Lempert
  • Stefan Soltau
  • Marcus Sujata (Sprachsynchron-Mischung )

Casting

  • Nessie Nesslauer

Music

  • Gravenhurst
  • Uwe Kirbach (Beratung)

Cast

  • Daniel Brühl
    Karl
  • Jürgen Vogel
    Hans
  • Sabine Timoteo
    Stelle
  • Peter Kurth
    Fernandez
  • Michael Wittenborn
    Naumann
  • Oktay Özdemir
    Theo
  • Steffen Groth
    Frank
  • Jan-Ole Gerster
    Cornelius
  • Jens Münchow
    Manager in Hamburg
  • Alexander Speck
    Schwedtmann
  • Alessandro De Tullio
    "Boris Lepowski"
  • Bernardus Manders
    Geschäftsmann

Production company

  • X Filme Creative Pool GmbH (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Film1 GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin)

in association with

  • Telepool Europäisches Fernsehprogrammkontor GmbH (München)

Producer

  • Maria Köpf
  • Tom Tykwer

Executive producer

  • Sebastian Zühr

Line producer

  • Marcos Kantis

Unit production manager

  • Arno Neubauer

Location manager

  • Gernot Valendzik

Original distributor

  • X Verleih AG (Berlin)

Funding

  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • FilmFörderung Hamburg GmbH (Hamburg)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)
  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Media Programm der EU (Brüssel)

Shoot

    • 02.11.2004 - 21.12.2004: Düsseldorf, Hamburg
Duration:
2289 m, 84 min
Format:
35mm, Cinemascope
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung: 14.07.2006, 106814, ohne Altersbeschränkung, feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 05.10.2006, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 26.10.2006;
Aufführung (DE): 10.02.2007, Berlin, IFF - German Cinema

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Ein Freund von mir

Versions

Original

Duration:
2289 m, 84 min
Format:
35mm, Cinemascope
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung: 14.07.2006, 106814, ohne Altersbeschränkung, feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 05.10.2006, Hamburg, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 26.10.2006;
Aufführung (DE): 10.02.2007, Berlin, IFF - German Cinema

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