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Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 1 nomination
Helmut Buchel
- Dirk
- (as Helmut Büchel)
- Director
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- TriviaAt the time of release, this was the biggest grossing homegrown film at the German box office. It was also the third-highest successful movie that year overall, after Forrest Gump (1994) and Vua Sư Tử (1994).
- Quotes
Doro Feldheim: [after hanged up the phone hearing a male voice] That was a man!
Jutta: So, in addition she's married.
Doro Feldheim: [hysterical] That was a homosexual guy!
- SoundtracksJa und nein
Music by Franz Grothe
Lyrics by Willy Dehmel
Performed by Palast Orchester featuring Max Raabe
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Maybe funnier if you're German, or both German and gay?
I thought it was fine. Not exactly deep stuff, but entertaining. Everything must be taken in context, if possible, and this was based on a popular comic strip by Ralf Koenig -- I'm guessing he's gay, based on other stuff I've seen of his, so whether his work perpetuates stereotypes or is the honest humor of a member of the gay community is not so easy to say. Not for me, anyway. I found Germany in the mid-1990s to be more tolerant of homosexuals than my hometown in Amerika, but a lot has changed in the intervening years. Anyway, political incorrectness aside, I think of this as a light comedy about relationships, like another Soenke Wortmann films I've seen [Stadtgespraech]. For students of the German language, it was a wonderful opportunity to catch some slang and modern, conversational German that we don't see in deep, intellectual films based on historical or literary sources.
- mooncaine-1
- Oct 27, 2004
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- Gross US & Canada
- $468,930
- Gross worldwide
- $468,930
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