Ballermann 6 (1997)

Directors:

Gernot Roll
Tom Gerhardt (co-director)

Writer:

Tom Gerhardt (writer)

Release Date:

16 October 1997 (Germany)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Der Film, auf den die Nation wartet !

Plot Keywords:

Proles | Bad Taste | Sequel | Vulgarity | German Humor

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Tom Gerhardt	...	Tommie
Hilmi Sözer	...	Mario
Christoph M. Ohrt	...	Klaus
Diana Frank	...	Maja
Ralph Willmann
Detlef Bothe
Dierk Prawdzik	...	Udo
Katja Flint	...	Cameo appearance
Uwe Ochsenknecht	...	Cameo appearance
Ottfried Fischer	...	Cameo appearance
Martin Armknecht	...	Cameo appearance
Jürgen Drews	...	Cameo appearance
Katrin Meincke	...	Cabriolady
Edda Fischer	...	Angestellte
Anja Roy	...	Gabi

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:12

Company:

Bavaria Entertainment

Trivia:

The last scene takes place at the "Ballermann 6" where the director wanted to portray drunk German tourists. Since it proved to be impossible to get the extras to play drunk convincingly, the producers used real alcohol to get convincing reactions. Tom Gerhardt says that he took care of providing the extras with enough alcohol himself.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Geld oder Liebe: (#1.61)" (1997)

This movie is simply terrible

I was in the video rental store with my friends and one of them suggested to rent this movie, he said: "this is better than 'Hausmeister Krause'", a German sitcom which also stars Tom Gerhardt. Well, I had no problem with it as I think that 'Hausmeiter Krause' is hilarious but I didn't knew how horrible this movie would turn out.

There are two beer addicts called Tommie and Mario, the latter who plays second fiddle most of the time but I didn't care about him because his acting was forgettable anyway. I paid more attention to Tom Gerhardt. To get a clue what his character is all about he is very similar to the Tommie character in the Hausmeister Krause sitcom but I have to sadly admit that this character fits more to an adolescent than some 40 year unemployed person because it seems unrealistic that someone this old can be so ridiculously stupid and the fact that this is unusual doesn't make it funny either.

The gags mostly range from slap-stick to one-liners, unfortunately neither both of them are funny most of the time. The movie is so often over the top that many odd scenes occur most of the time. Both of the main characters jump from a beach party to an hotel to the kitchen of a restaurant to an arena etc. etc. with no logical explanation how they've got there at all just to get some cheap childish jokes in.

So that more people watched the movie when it was in the theatres it has a big list of cameo appearances from German celebrities and actors; I still wonder how some of the more remarkable German actors could whore them out just to appear in this bad movie.

At last I suggest anyone to skip this movie that contains sheer stupidness and watch the way funnier sitcom Hausmeister Krause.