Robert Zimmermann wundert sich über die Liebe (2008)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Leander Haußmann

Writers:

Gernot Gricksch (novel)
Gernot Gricksch (screenplay)

Release Date:

28 August 2008 (Germany)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel | Character Name In Title

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Tom Schilling	...	Robert Zimmermann
Christian Sengewald	...	Ole
Julia Dietze	...	Lorna
Peter Jordan	...	Karsten Darkness
David Gruschka	...	David
Aaron Hong Le	...	Wong (as Aaron Le)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Detlev Buck	...	Eberhard
Alexis Bug	...	Ludger
Maruschka Detmers	...	Monika
Marlen Diekhoff	...	Jennifer Zimmermann - Roberts Mutter
James Garfunkel	...	Himself
Gernot Gricksch	...	Herr Zerch
Leander Haußmann	...	Ronny
Kirstin Hesse	...	Anka - Vaters Neue
Annika Kuhl	...	Pia Zimmermann
Steffi Kühnert	...	Inga
Boris Naujoks	...	Regisseur Fritteur
Johann Adam Oest	...	Vater Zimmermann (as Adam Oest)
Sammy Steward	...	Nat
Bettina Stucky	...	Marga
Angelika Thomas	...	Frau Doktor Schüler
Christian Ulmen	...	Radiomoderator Krischel

Also Known As:

Robert Zimmermann Is Tangled Up in Love (Europe: English title) (festival title)

Runtime:

Germany:102 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Filming Locations:

Alter Elbtunnel, St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany

Company:

Boje Buck Produktion

Even Dylan would never forgive what you do

Leander Haussmann is such a goof ball. Whatever he touches turns into a travesty. Don't get me wrong. I like a good laugh. Who doesn't? But when everything's just a joke, nothing is funny and plots fall apart. Without the bitter, the sweet ain't the sweet, as Cameron Crowe once put it. "Robert Zimmermann" is a shallow comedy set in a fabricated limbo land half-way between the present and the post-war past. Robert, a computer game designer with the looks and moves of a 15-year old kid, falls in love with his laundry lady, a single mom and some 40 years Robert's senior, baffling his girlfriend, his buddies, and his parents. But then, his father keeps a twenty-something mistress, his mother tests the waters of menopausal romance, and his lesbian sister is pregnant with her childhood sweetheart's offspring. The only good thing about this movie is Annika Kuhl. She plays Robert's sister Pia and the minute you see her, you believe her character has a life off the screen, perhaps even some sort of secret. By comparison, everyone else is just an extra. Think of Pia as this movie's Margot Tenenbaum. Incidentally, she is also the director's girlfriend. He obviously has better taste in women than he has in movies. Guest appearance by Art Garfunkel's son.