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)
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