Bummm! (2006)

Director:

Alain Gsponer

Writers:

Alex Buresch (writer)
Matthias Pacht (writer)

Release Date:

8 March 2007 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Katja Riemann	...	Sybille Spatz
Ulrich Noethen	...	Roland Spatz
Hannah Herzsprung	...	Florina Krüger
Josef Mattes	...	Linus Spatz
Volker Bruch	...	Charles Spatz
Gerald Alexander Held	...	Happy Krüger (as Alexander Thorsten Held)
Juliane Köhler	...	Katharina 'Kätzchen' Krüger
Martin Feifel	...	Hannes
Timo Dierkes	...	Stefan Kowalski
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bernhard Baier	...	Graue Eminenz
Susanna Fernandes-Genebra	...	Frau Ruiz
Katja Gaub	...	Claudia
Michael Holz	...	Nachbar
Kathrin Kestler	...	Krankenschwester
Christian Koch	...	Verhandlungsführer
Gesche Picolin	...	Headhunter
Gerhard Polacek	...	Reinhard
Isis Schabana	...	Angestellte im Wellnesscenter
Sebastian Schäfer	...	Headhunter
Florian Schmidt-Gahlen	...	Schroeter
Michael Stiller	...	Notarzt
Barbara von Münchhausen	...	Zahnarztgattin
Susanne Weckerle	...	Frau Peters
Anna Windmüller	...	Renate

Also Known As:

Bummm! Feindliche Übernahme (Germany) (working title)
Life Actually (International: English title)
Wahre Leben, Das (Germany) (new title)

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

Germany | Switzerland

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:12 | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Company:

TV-60 Filmproduktion

Bringing down the house

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Everybody is busy trying to save someone else in Swiss director Alain Gsponer's first general-release feature. Roland tries to save his son Charles from homosexuality. Sybille, Roland's prototypical frustrated gallery-owning wife, tries to save the neighbors' daughter from her loopy parents and turn her into the biggest thing since Rothko. Charles tries to save his introvert kid brother Linus from blowing himself up with home-made explosives. Florina (Hannah Herzsprung, going places) is the only one not trying to save anyone. She is busy hurting herself, charring, boozing, shaving, drugging, cutting, drowning till the morning comes. Oh, and there's a dead kid buried somewhere too. As a running gag, Roland is vainly trying to tear down a wall in their living room. Much like the script, the wall won't give. This one will go straight to film studies discussion group hell, bleak suburban family trauma, the metaphor of spatial transgression, Bergman transferred to post-capitalism, pervasive architectural symbolism, you name it. Extra thumbs down for Katja Riemann's poorly shaved armpits.