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Gigantic

Original title: Absolute Giganten
  • 19991999
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
4.6K
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POPULARITY
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Gigantic (1999)
ComedyDrama
Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
4.6K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
63,822
10,022
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    • Director
      • Sebastian Schipper
    • Writer
      • Sebastian Schipper
    • Stars
      • Frank Giering
      • Florian Lukas
      • Antoine Monot Jr.
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    • Director
      • Sebastian Schipper
    • Writer
      • Sebastian Schipper
    • Stars
      • Frank Giering
      • Florian Lukas
      • Antoine Monot Jr.
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    • 19User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 2 nominations

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    Frank Giering
    Frank Giering
    • Floyd
    Florian Lukas
    Florian Lukas
    • Ricco
    Antoine Monot Jr.
    Antoine Monot Jr.
    • Walter
    Julia Hummer
    • Telsa
    Jochen Nickel
    Jochen Nickel
    • Snake
    Albert Kitzl
    • Elvis
    Guido A. Schick
    • Dulle
    Silvana Bosi
    • Walters Oma
    Marcnesium
    • Typ mit Rastalocken
    Johannes Silberschneider
    Johannes Silberschneider
    • Hans
    Barbara de Koy
    • Irmgard
    Gustav-Peter Wöhler
    Gustav-Peter Wöhler
    • Horst
    Michael Sideris
    • Dieter
    • (as Mischa Sideris)
    Hannes Hellmann
    • Klaus
    Peter Franke
    Peter Franke
    • Meister
    Alfons Lütje
    • Bewährungshelfer
    • (as Alfons-Andreas Lütje)
    Sven Pippig
    • Pornomann
    Joshy Peters
    • Alfa-Fahrer
    • (as Joshua Peters)
    • Director
      • Sebastian Schipper
    • Writer
      • Sebastian Schipper
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      [last lines]

      Floyd: The first thing that I can remember is when I got a sparkler from my mother on New Year's Eve. The sky was full of rockets and fireworks that exploded and sparked. That was loud. But I wasn't afraid. I just held my sparkler up to the dark sky... and shook it like crazy. I shook it so hard, so incredibly hard, as hard as I could. And even harder. Until I couldn't any more and on and on. Senseless and harder and harder. And I was small. And so was the sparkler. But I was part of the biggest and most incredible thing... I've ever seen. The greatest and biggest ever, and I was there. Without me knowing it, without me knowing anything. I think, I've never done anything like that in my life again. So hard and uncompromisingly and totally. I think, I never experienced anything in my life again, that was so big and so gigantic. What time is it, by the way?

    • Connections
      Referenced in Klassenfahrt - Geknutscht wird immer (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      The Things That I Used To Do
      Written by Garrett Dutton, Jeff Clemens, James Presscott

      Performed by G. Love & Special Sauce

      Courtesy of MELODIE DER WELT, J. Michel KG / Rondor Musikvertag GmbH Sony Music Entertainment (Germany) Gmb

    User reviews19

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    9/10
    Heart and soul in Hamburg
    I already watched this movie some years ago today I watched it again and I really like this movie. The story tells about 3 friends living in hamburg the night before one of them will go to a ship to Africa and later singapore. It's their last evening they spend together and they have much trouble but fun too. A really nice scene is the kicker-scene where they play against the "snake", a really strange guy who plays kicker very well. This movie got so much emotion and is very funny too, so this proves that there are coming up some good talented directors, producers and actors. I hope to see more movies like this in the future, telling realistic stories from peoples lifes without spending so much money on movies to plaster bad stories. We have that movies from Hollywood all the time so I'm really glad to have movies like this one.

    9/10
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    • Release date
      • September 30, 1999 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Languages
      • German
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Absolute Giganten
    • Filming locations
      • Alter Elbtunnel, St. Pauli, Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, Germany
    • Production companies
      • X-Filme Creative Pool
      • Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
      • ARTE
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    • Budget
      • DEM 2,500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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