Directed by:
Hans WeingartnerScreenplay:
Hans WeingartnerCinematography:
Christine A. MaierCast:
Moritz Bleibtreu, Elsa Schulz Gambard, Milan Peschel, Simone Hanselmann, Thorsten Feller, Tom Jahn, Robert Viktor Minich, Irshad Panjatan, Andreas Brandt (more)Plots(1)
Successful TV producer Rainer has it all: big salary, high life, hot car, even hotter girlfriend. The 30-something go-getter has reached the top by creating TV shows appealing to the lowest level and getting the highest ratings. In his latest hit, a man gets the privilege of fathering a woman's child if his spermatozoid wins a microscopic race to fertilize an ovum! One day, the mysterious young woman Pegah deliberately drives full speed into Rainer's car. On the verge of death, Rainer has a major change of heart and decides to produce a thought-provoking news show for his station's primetime line-up. Devastated by the show's poor ratings, Rainer quits his job and embarks on an investigation of the ratings system that keeps programmes that insult the intelligence at the top. Teaming up with the beautiful Pegah he hires a gang of unemployed social misfits and sets out to prove that a conspiracy surrounds the boxes used in select households to estimate audience percentages. Rainer and his new friends take up the challenge against the mind-numbing world of television. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
![Olaf Burmeister](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/422/160422981_c1254a.jpg)
Olaf Burmeister
East Germany
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Summer in Berlin (2005)
Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007) (TV movie)
![David Bredin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/104/161104988_0ebbc7.jpg)
David Bredin
West Germany
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Beat (2018) (series)
I Will Not Be Silent (2017) (TV movie)
Eva Lorenzo
Spain
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
![Hans Weingartner](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/502/162502032_c1caea.jpg)
Hans Weingartner
Austria
Best movies:
Before Sunrise (1995)
Free Rainer (2007)
The White Sound (2001)
![Eva-Maria Kurz](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/087/160087479_804d4f.jpg)
Eva-Maria Kurz
German Empire
Best movies:
Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland (1992)
The Girl and Death (2012)
Free Rainer (2007)
Us Conradi
German Empire
Best movies:
Sun Alley (1999)
Free Rainer (2007)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
![Nadja Engel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/423/160423217_0db929.jpg)
Nadja Engel
East Germany
Best movies:
Balloon (2018)
The Reader (2008)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Angela Hobrig
East Germany
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
The Legend of Rita (2000)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Lutz Herkenrath
West Germany
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Charlotte Crome](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/934/160934023_eecab9.jpg)
Charlotte Crome
West Germany
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Dark Woods (2020) (series)
Kebab Connection (2004)
Arne Fuhrmann
German Empire
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Inga Lindström (2004) (series)
Michael Krause
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
The Death King (1990)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Sascha Titel
Best movies:
Das jüngste Gericht (2008) (TV movie)
Free Rainer (2007)
Die weiße Schlange (2015) (TV movie)
![Gesa Badenhorst](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/032/163032811_6b4694.jpg)
Gesa Badenhorst
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Allein unter Schülern (2009) (TV movie)
Christoph Schobesberger
Austria
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Ein Hund, zwei Koffer und die ganz grosse Liebe (2005) (TV movie)
Walter Hötte
East Germany
Best movies:
The Elementary Particles (2006)
Free Rainer (2007)
Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007) (TV movie)
Alexander Tschernek
West Germany
Best movies:
The Collini Case (2019)
Hannah Arendt (2012)
Free Rainer (2007)
Arne Fiedler
Best movies:
Roland Trnka
Best movies:
Come Sweet Death (2000)
Michael (2011)
Clara Immerwahr (2014) (TV movie)
Oliver Haller
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Dream Of My Life (2009) (TV movie)