Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
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| Moritz Bleibtreu | ... | Rainer | |
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Elsa Sophie Gambard | ... | Pegah |
| Milan Peschel | ... | Phillip | |
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Gregor Bloéb | ... | Maiwald |
| Tom Jahn | ... | Bernd | |
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Andreas Brandt | ... | Karl-Heinz |
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Robert Viktor Minich | ... | Harry |
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Ralf Knicker | ... | Sebastian |
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Irshad Panjatan | ... | Gopal |
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Simone Hanselmann | ... | Anna |
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Doris Golpashin | ... | Showmoderatorin |
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Peer Jäger | ... | Gründgens |
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Us Conradi | ... | Frau Arnim |
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Franziska Knuppe | ... | Maiwalds Freundin |
| Vinzenz Kiefer | ... | Titanic Mann | |
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Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
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Maiwald: BUt then I'M wondering, who is buying these Britney Spears CDs.
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When Rainer's nose is bleeding he is holding his head back the whole time, which shouldn't be done as the blood would go down into the lounges. Instead he should have to lean forward and hold his nose at this situation. See more »Quotes
Rainer Kuhhirt: Nobody out there is as stupid as the shows that we produce.Maiwald: BUt then I'M wondering, who is buying these Britney Spears CDs.
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This movie is what it claims to be! It does not claim to be realistic, it claims to be a funny revenge story on somewhat, what really needs to be revenged. This movie is not education, it's only a very small part and a wet revenge dream against the other part on the scale pan, we see everyday: The awful TV program, which became our religion. And on the other side, where it should be in balance, but is not - it's like that: Total Trash. Incredibly stupid game shows, which try to force people to call and to give money for nothing, like for example: "Yes now you can win even more, tell me when do you have birthday!... 21. of August?! Oh i am so sorry, you would have won if it were the 31. of June." Or somewhat - the next superstar model casting shows. - Like it's so good to get money for doing nothing. TV became our religion, so that we reconstruct our world from, what we see and believe to be real a few people tell us so (not very normal people, who have much free time to do so). And the problem is, that we partly have to believe that it is real, so i just don't get the critique of some people "Weingartner used trash to bury trash"... The problem is - our world is slowly becoming trashier everyday. So what. Hit it with it. It's just a nice and funny movie, which unfolds to show a bit how it could be and that supposed clarification is never total. This movie has the claim, what i would call, to have a nicotine patch effect on the media world. It's not as good as a cigarette (which is trash) but it tries to help against the pain. And i think this effect is the reason for bad comments. Not for me - Because of the message - i like it and give it a ten plus.