Crazy (2000)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Hans-Christian Schmid

Writers:

Michael Gutmann (writer)
Benjamin Lebert (novel)

Release Date:

8 June 2000 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Benjamin is a 16 year old half-side spastic with lousy grades in math, who switches to a boarding school to reach grammar school...

Plot Keywords:

Coming Of Age | Boarding School | Topless | Teenage Sex | Stripper

Awards:

5 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Robert Stadlober	...	Benjamin Lebert
Tom Schilling	...	Janosch Schwarze
Oona-Devi Liebich	...	Malen
Julia Hummer	...	Marie
Can Taylanlar	...	Troy
Christoph Ortmann	...	Kugli
Joseph Bolz	...	Dünner Felix
Willy Rachow	...	Florian
Dagmar Manzel	...	Juliane Lebert, Benjamins Mutter
Burghart Klaußner	...	Klaus Lebert, Benjamins Vater
Mira Bartuschek	...	Paula Lebert, Benjamins Schwester
Jörg Gudzuhn	...	Herr Falkenstein
Katharina Müller-Elmau	...	Frau Westphalen
Irene Kugler	...	Frau Bachmann
Germain Wagner	...	Herr Richter

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Germany:12 (bw) | Sweden:11

Filming Locations:

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Claussen & Wöbke Filmproduktion GmbH

Trivia:

Sibel Gerhardt, stepsister of Jan Lehmann, auditioned for the role of Marie and was one of the favorites. She was rejected only because she was too young to play some of the love scenes in the movie.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Delphinsommer (2004) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Welcome

a very realistic and catching teenage movie

It seems like Europe has finally developed its own style of teenage movies, which is far more appealing to me than the American one. There are indeed a few similarities to "Fucking Åmål", and at first I thought "Crazy" to be just some kind of a German copy of it. But then I found, it is mainly the realism and the straightness that is similar to FA; and I consider this as a new European style. Most of the feelings and emotions of this film have also appeared in my youth, and they most probably will in all upcoming generations, too. So, the film is very catching for everybody, especially males, who have been a teenager. Some of the people in the audience even shed a tear at certain moments. The only thing I thought to be a little unrealistic and even annoying is the way the sixteen year old boys seemed to think about god. I would think that most boys of that age, unless being raised in a strict religious environment, talk about god in a less reflected way. But maybe this is a typical Bavarian phenomena, or the producers wanted to push chances of receiving an US-American academy award.