Daniel Brühl, Jurgen Vogel, Michael Wittenborn, Peter Kurth, Sabine Timoteo

Karl and Hans couldn't be more different. Karl is a young mathematician with a promising career at an insurance company, whereas the man-about-town Hans only takes up the odd job to get by. When they ...( read more  read more... )meet, Hans asks Karl whether he is happy. Karl doesn't know what to reply until Hans shows him what makes him happy: ice cream, girls, coffee, airplanes, the fastest backwards driving car in the world, and driving a Porsche at night in the nude along the Autobahn for example. For Hans friendship means to share everything, even Stelle, the queen of his heart. This is too much for Karl. But then, you can't just get rid of a friend like Hans, and a woman like Stelle is unforgettable.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 24 min.

Directed by: Sebastian Schipper

Release Date: October 7, 2006

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  • October 22, 2009
    the main character has the feeling that something is missing from his life ...

    i have the feeling that something is missing from this film

    while it's a watchable wanna be comedy / deep meaning drama, it's not my kind of humor, or lets say it's just not really funny
    the dialogs ...( read more)are nothing special either and since it's not much happening anyway, the movie lives on the mood it creates

    i really like Brühl and Vogel as actors and they surely do their best here, but it's not much you could get out of the script
    a bit friendship, a bit alienation, a bit smalltalk and unfortunatly a bit of wanna-be-humor
    and an weak attempt at having a deeper meaning

    this one just doesn't talk to me - can't recomend it

    and by the way, what the main character is missing in his life is actually having a life
  • January 3, 2008
    im a big fan of German Films and this was excellent. Two guys who have just met have nothing in common apart form their love of fast cars and the same woman. I thought Hans was such a classic character
  • September 3, 2007
    The idea sound like fight club, but this german movie is a good one about happiness, friendship et thing like this.

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