Synopsis
Evelyn’s life is anything but happy. The relationship with her husband has gone into hibernation and day in, day out she’s terribly bullied by her much younger and arrogant boss.
The indebted courier Frank is doing no better. He, too, fights with perpetual disdain. In order to impress his new and much more successful acquaintance Angela, he plays the wealthy entrepreneur. In search of a fancy present for his adored one, he tears open the parcels entrusted to him and accidentally swaps the contents – and instead of the blouse that she ordered, Evelyn receives a book about medical plants, which gives her the daring idea of a self-brewed laxative agent to avenge her unloved boss… however, that plan goes more than belly-up.A quirky glimpse behind petty bourgeois facades, where horror but also happiness lurk.
Technical Information
2018; Comedy; Switzerland, Germany; 90 minutes; Apple ProRes 4444 / rec709; Aspect Ratio: 1:1,85 (1920×1080 Letterbox); Surround-Sound 5.1 & Stereo (LtRt_R128); Original Language: German; Subtitles: English
Script
Stefan Hillebrand, Oliver Paulus
Director
Stefan Hillebrand, Oliver Paulus
DoP
Daniela Knapp, Tom Schneider
Steadicam
Stefan Sosna
Light
Dr. Marc Reisner, Simon Wottreng
Sound
Ulrich Westner
Production Design
Tatjana Paulus
Edit
Oliver Paulus, Ana R. Fernandes, Nela Märki, Torsten Truscheit
Music
Marcel Vaid, Doc Wenz
Sounddesign
Ramón Orza
Sound Mix
Stefan Korte
Producers
Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand
Production
Motorfilm GmbH, Zürich (CH), Frischfilm Produktionen, Mannheim (DE)
Postproduction co-financed by
Bundesamt für Kultur BAK
Migros Kulturprozent
Lotteriefonds Kanton Solothurn
Fondation SUISA
Praesens Film
Kulturamt Mannheim
Filmcomission Nordbaden
Evelyn Möller
Sabine Reinhardt
Frank Gehrlach
Christoph Jungmann
Ursel König
Isolde Fischer
Der Chef – Mr. Peck
Jim Libby
Bernd Engel
Volker Heymann
Barbara Engel
Coralie Wolff
Angela Parker
Belina Raffy
coming soon
Solothurner Filmtage 2018
Festival des deutschen Films, Ludwigshafen 2018
DEA Open Air International Film Festival Albania 2018 – Award for Best Actor (Christoph Jungmann)
Semana da Lingue Alemã do Brazil, 2019
Cinema Svizzero a Venezia #8, 2019
Il Cinema Svizzero Contemporaneo, Milano 2019
coming soon…