Die Einsamkeit der Krokodile (2000)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.4/10   

Réalisateur:

Jobst Oetzmann

Writers:

Dirk Kurbjuweit (novel)
Jobst Oetzmann (writer)

Release Date:

17 mai 2001 (Germany)

Genre:

Comedie | Drame

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Awards:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

One long disappointment

Ensemble

Janek Rieke	...	Elias
Thomas Schmauser	...	Günther Sperl
Julia Jäger	...	Heike
Dynell Rhodes	...	Mary
Rosemarie Fendel	...	Frau Sperl
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Oliver Bröcker	...	J. Pellmann
Josef Heynert	...	F. Rottau
Renate Krößner	...	Friede
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey	...	Roland
Ernst Stötzner	...	Helmut

Autre(s) titre(s):

The Loneliness of the Crocodiles (USA)

Durée:

96 min

Pays:

Germany

Langue:

Allemand

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Classification:

Germany:12 (w)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Höxter, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

Olga Film GmbH

Guillemet:

[As Elias is freeing pigs from their pens]
Elias: 'Wir sind leise Schweine... Shhh!'
Elias: 'We are quite pigs... Shhh!'

One long disappointment

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.