Der bewegte Mann (1994)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Sönke Wortmann

Writers:

Sönke Wortmann (screenplay)
Ralf König (comics "Der bewegte Mann" and "Pretty Baby")

Release Date:

12 July 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay he met some days before.

Plot Keywords:

Apartment | Homosexual | Party | Gay Interest | Human Relationship

Awards:

9 wins

Cast

Til Schweiger	...	Axel Feldheim
Joachim Król	...	Norbert Brommer
Katja Riemann	...	Doro Feldheim
Rufus Beck	...	Walter aka 'Waltraud'
Armin Rohde	...	Metzger
Nico van der Knaap	...	Fränzchen
Antonia Lang	...	Elke Schmitt
Martina Gedeck	...	Jutta
Judith Reinartz	...	Claudia
Kai Wiesinger	...	Aufreißer Gunnar
Horst Scheel	...	Günter (as Horst D. Scheel)
Christof Wackernagel	...	Rüdiger
Martin Armknecht	...	Lutz
Heinrich Schafmeister	...	Klaus Dieter
Helmut Buchel	...	Dirk (as Helmut Büchel)

Also Known As:

Maybe... Maybe Not (USA)
The Most Desired Man (International: English title)
The Turbulent Man

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:18 | Australia:MA | Chile:18 | Denmark:7 | Finland:K-14 | Germany:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

Neue Constantin Film

Trivia:

Based on the books "Der Bewegte Mann" and "Pretty Baby", written by cartoonist Ralf König, who appears as a drag-queen.

Quotes:

Axel Feldheim: [getting in a car full of transvestites] Good morning, girls.
Norbert Brommer: [with deep voice] Hello.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Katja Riemann (2006) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Kein Schwein ruft mich an

Laugh out loud? I did indeed.

I saw this film in Germany when it came out as I was living there at the time. It was one of the funniest films I ever saw. Some years later I got a subtitled copy back in England and was shocked at how unfunny it was when translated. Which goes to show that humour often only works in the language it was created in.

That said, it is still a very unstylised view of culture clashes and a study of how far people are prepared to go when they aren't getting any sex. No one gets what they want by the end: the gay man doesn't get his straight friend; the straight man doesn't get his free-love lifestyle; the straight woman doesn't get her angry singledom.

I guess the moral is that you can take the human out of their sexuality, but you can't take the sexuality out of the human. Trite, but it reflects the title of the film, referring to a proverbial fish out of water.