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Director:
Robert Glinski
Writers:
Günter Grass (novel)
Cezary Harasimowicz (writer)
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Release Date:
22 September 2005 (Germany) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Awards:
4 nominations more
User Comments:
Love after the fall of the communism more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Krystyna Janda ... Aleksandra Piatkowska
Matthias Habich ... Alexander Reschke
Dorothea Walda ... Erna Brakup

Bhasker Patel ... Chatterjee
Udo Samel ... Vielbrand
Marek Kondrat ... Marczak
Mareike Carrière ... Johanna Dettlaff
Joachim Król ... Karau
Zbigniew Zamachowski ... Priest Bieronski
Aleksandra Kisio ... Iwonka
Krzysztof Globisz ... Wróbel
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrzej Andrzejewski
Miroslaw Baka ... Mechanic
Meret Becker ... Sophia

Marek Brodzki ... Taxi Driver
Stefan Burczyk
Jolanta Dapkunaite ... Aleksandra's Mother
Helene Grass ... Grethe
Kamil Grenda ... Football Player
Grzegorz Gzyl ... Receptionist
Jürgen Hartmann ... Jo
Iza Januszko ... Young Aleksandra
Anne Kasprik ... Alex's Mother
Dominik Klaumann ... Tommy
Justus Kranz ... Young Alex
Joachim Lamza ... Glowa
Frederick Lau ... Fähnleinträger
Vaidotas Martinaitis ... Renkajtis
Krzysztof Matuszewski ... Father of Young Alex
Igor Michalski
Krzysztof Ogloza ... Witek
Monika Pikula
Matthias Redlhammer ... Undertaker
Uwe Rohde ... Olaf
Ryszard Ronczewski ... Old Tourist
Arunas Sakalauskas ... Aleksandra's Father
Dariusz Siastacz ... Tourist Guide
Halina Slojewska ... Old Tourist
Grzegorz Sochaj ... Golf Player
Krzysztof Szczerbinski
Michael Trischan
Sabine Vitua
Grzegorz Wolf ... Adolf Hitler
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Call of the Toad (UK)
Wrózby kumaka (Poland)
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Runtime:
98 min
Country:
Germany | Poland
Language:
German | Polish | English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Germany:6

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Love after the fall of the communism, 24 March 2006
3/10

Polish-German co-production "Unkenrufe" of Robert Glinski it is a film, to which example great one can see the basic sin of the Polish cinematography wanting to be recognized ambitious: very good actors (Janda, Zamachowski, Kondrat, Globisz) are appearing in a film which the outline of the plot can wake up stuff on (very) good cinema, all the more so because the film is an adaptation of the novel of Noble prizewinner Gunter Grass. Unfortunately it is turning out that good actors and the excellent prototype won't replace the crummy script, in the case which you don't want to believe that he was done a dozen or so times.

1989. Born in Vilnius Pole about called Aleksandra (Janda) and born in Gdansk German Alexander (Matthias Habich), both already in the advanced age, are meeting in the most famous polish port and they are falling in love with themselves. Together are hitting upon an idea to create in the city the graveyard for Germans born in Gdansk before and during the II world war...

It isn't a known fact whether it is supposed to be the comedy, the drama whether something can on the borderland of these two kinds. Main topics of the film - conciliating Poles and Germans, love in the blossom of the age -certainly seem interesting, however that what scriptwriters did with them is simply outrageous. Not quite they stayed introduced in simply boring way (I withstood at the cinema probably only therefore all the time I depicted how I would look this film with a person from Germany), as well actors are playing it this way as if they didn't believe that spectators would believe the fact of existing between figures played by them any emotions. Watching this film is in my very modest opinion a waste of time. It's better to watch even a mad American comedy in the style of "Dude, where's my car?".

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