Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2010 / Friendship! / Germany 2009
Two naive young East Germans hit the Stateside asphalt after the fall of the Berlin Wall in ’89 in Friendship! Though the pair have only limited English, and even less knowledge of the U.S., the script soon soft-pedals linguistic and cultural misunderstanding as its main source of humor.
Two naive young East Germans hit the Stateside asphalt after the fall of the Berlin Wall in ’89 in Friendship! When the opportunity comes to travel abroad, the two go-getters decide to journey to San Francisco, where Veit’s father supposedly escaped to a decade earlier. Unfortunately, the two bright young optimists have only enough money to fly to Gotham, where, after telling passport control they’re not Nazis but communists ("Friendship!” they cry), they’re hauled into a back room and body-searched. Worse, they then realize their $55 will only get them as far as New Jersey, so they decide to hitch – initially with wacko Darryl to his hometown in Tennessee. Though the pair have only limited English, and even less knowledge of the U.S., the script soon soft-pedals linguistic and cultural misunderstanding as its main source of humor.
108 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Markus Goller
/ Screenplay Oliver Ziegenbalg
/ Dir. of Photography Ueli Steiger
/ Music Peter Horn, Andrej Melita, Martin Probst
/ Editor Olivia Retzer
/ Producer Quirin Berg, Tom Zickler, Max Wiedemann
/ Production Wiedemann & Berg Productions GmbH & Co. KG
/ Cast Matthias Schweighöfer, Friedrich Mücke, Alicja Bachleda
/ Contact Palace Pictures, A-Company Film Licensing International, Sony Pictures Releasing GmbH
/ Distributor Palace Pictures
www: www.sonypictures.de/filme/friendship/index.html
Palace Pictures
Vodičkova 19, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 210 083 527
Fax: +420 224 239 162
E-mail: [email protected]
A-Company Film Licensing International
Alexanderstrasse 7, D-10178, Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 257 623 30
Fax: +49 30 257 623 59
E-mail: [email protected]
Sony Pictures Releasing GmbH
Kemperplatz 1, 10785, Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 257 558 09
E-mail: [email protected]
Andrea Machalíková
Other
Markus Goller
Film Director, Film Director
Stefanie Zeitler
Distributor
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