Der Wixxer (2004)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Tobi Baumann

Writers:

Oliver Kalkofe (written by) &
Oliver Welke (written by) ...

Release Date:

20 May 2004 (Austria)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery

Tagline:

Er kommt (He's coming)

Plot:

A mysterious serial killer is shocking the underworld. Scotland Yard is investigating the case. Clues lead the detectives to Blackwhite Castle. |

Plot Keywords:

Castle | Murder | Crime Investigation | Pug Dog | Impersonation And Imposture

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Oliver Kalkofe	...	Chief Inspector Even Longer / Kreischende Frau
Bastian Pastewka	...	Inspector Very Long / Rosenverkäufer
Tanja Wenzel	...	Miss Pennymarket
Olli Dittrich	...	Dieter Dubinsky
Thomas Heinze	...	Rather Short / Der Wixxer neu
Anke Engelke	...	Doris Dubinsky
Thomas Fritsch	...	Earl of Cockwood
Christoph Maria Herbst	...	Butler Alfons Hatler
Wolfgang Völz	...	Sir John
Antoine Monot Jr.	...	Der taube Jack
Lars Rudolph	...	Harry Smeerlap
Eva Ebner	...	Miss Drycunt
Oliver Welke	...	Dr. Brinkman
André Meyer	...	Pommi
Daniel Steiner	...	Fritti

Also Known As:

The Trixxer (International: English title) (promotional title)

Runtime:

Germany:85 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:12 (canton of Zurich) | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

Company:

Falcom Media

Trivia:

The original character name for the Earl of Cockwood was Earl of Fistfuck but the Bavarian Film Fund asked to change that.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the box in the harbor opens and the girl-group "No Angels" runs out of the box screaming, one member can still be seen in the right-hand corner of the screen.

Quotes:

Chief Inspector Even Longer: [climbing out of a trap door from a cellar] I thought I was a goner.
Miss Pennymarket: This is an old trap door, from the 14th Century.
Butler Alfons Hatler: We still need it - for the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Dr. No (1962)

Soundtrack:

The Wizard

I LOVED IT! Kalkofe truly rules!

I went to the cinema in the first week playing and left the absolutely crowded cinema with a smile on my face. The humor is much different to what others might consider funny, such as "Schuh des Manitu" didn't have any success outside Germany. Everybody at the movies laughed most of the time, the characters were the opposite of what was expected...and the best: only the worst jokes were shown in the promotion trailers. If you came for "usual" comedy or braindead jokes like US comedy you were in the wrong place. The Hitler-impersonator being the best example: Everywhere else Hitler would have been a tiny man fulfilling international stereotypes while "Der Wixxer" took a deep look into the psychic worlds of a Hitler today.