GFQ 2-2007 - german films

Vollidiot
COMPLETE IDIOT
Not all men are idiots – some are complete idiots.
Simon Peters, a passionless telephone salesman, is down
on his luck, has no girlfriend and is about to turn thirty. His
girlfriend left him a year ago and a new situation is no -
where in sight. Neither the Cologne nightlife scene nor the
attempts by his Croatian cleaning lady to hook him up
with someone offer any sort of hope of sexual fulfillment.
But one day, behind the window of the All American
Coffee Company he sees the woman of his dreams:
Marcia P. Garcia, a South American expert in the art of
frothing milk. She has a sensational smile and an equally
sensa tional body. Simon is certain – she’s the one. The
woman of his life. The mother of his bilingual children. Just
one lit tle thing stands in the way of a romantic wedding:
Simon still has to approach her first.
Genre Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2007 Director Tobi Baumann Screenplay
Tommy Jaud Director of Photography Jo Heim Editor
Martin Wolf Music by Stephan & Cecil Remmler Production
Design Josef Sanktjohanser Producers Christoph Mueller, Sven
Burgemeister Production Company Senator Film Produktion/
World Sales
TELEPOOL GmbH · Wolfram Skowronnek
Sonnenstrasse 21 · 80331 Munich/Germany
phone +49-89-55 87 60 · fax +49-89-55 87 62 29
email: cinepool@telepool.de · www.telepool.de
Berlin, in co-production with Europool/Munich, in cooperation with
Pictorion Pictures/Huerth, Goldkind Film/Munich Principal
Cast Oliver Pocher, Oliver Fleischer, Tanja Wenzel, Anke Engelke,
Ellenie Salvo González, Tomas Sinclair Spencer, Herbert Feuerstein
Casting Emrah Ertem Length 102 min, 2,783 m Format 35
mm, color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version
English Sound Technology Dolby Digital With backing
from Filmstiftung NRW, Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA),
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, BKM German Distri butor
Senator Film Verleih/Berlin
Tobi Baumann was born in 1974 in Koblenz. He began his
comedy career as a writer for the RTL Nachtshow and Die Harald
Schmidt Show and has been directing and winning awards for such
television comedy shows as Die Wochenshow, Lady -
kracher, and Ohne Worte. A “self-made man” in the German
comedy scene, Der Wixxer (2004) was his feature debut, follow -
ed by the TV series LiebesLeben and Ladyland, and his
second feature Complete Idiot (Vollidiot, 2007).
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Scene from “Complete Idiot” (photo © Senator Film Verleih)