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7.4/10   103 votes
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Writers:
Dirk Kurbjuweit (novel)
Jobst Oetzmann (writer)
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Release Date:
17 May 2001 (Germany) more
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Plot:
A journalist looks for the reason of a young man's suicide. During his research, he talks to the oddest kinds of people and finds out that he himself is not very different from the dead man. | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations more
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One long disappointment more (4 total)

Cast

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Janek Rieke ... Elias
Thomas Schmauser ... Günther Sperl
Julia Jäger ... Heike
Dynell Rhodes ... Mary
Rosemarie Fendel ... Frau Sperl
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Oliver Bröcker ... J. Pellmann

Josef Heynert ... F. Rottau
Renate Krößner ... Friede
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey ... Roland
Ernst Stötzner ... Helmut
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Loneliness of the Crocodiles (USA)
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Runtime:
96 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
[As Elias is freeing pigs from their pens]
Elias: 'Wir sind leise Schweine... Shhh!'
Elias: 'We are quite pigs... Shhh!'
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1 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
One long disappointment, 30 August 2004
1/10
Author: profit-5 from Bochum, Germany

Being from Germany, I know only very few good recent German films, and so I thought, I'd give this one a chance. I had read a few good words about it, in a TV-magazine. (generally not a good source for trustworthy movie recommendations) As some minutes passed, I was confronted with clichés, clichés, and clichés. At first I thought, it might be some kind of satire... I just could not believe, in the existence of such a unimaginative (non blockbuster) movie! I was wrong though. This movie doesn't play with clichés as for example Pulp Fiction does, it simply quotes them. The whole "pigs are like people"-thing, the ultimately boring lovestory, the fat black extroverted American woman, the parents, who won't let go of their son, the bullying schoolmates ... and so on. I have noticed though, some people enjoyed this movie. It appeals to their emotions, it is political correct, and it is very much paedagogic, which is UNFORTUNATELY symptomatic for German films.

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