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Life Is Too Long

Original title: Das Leben ist zu lang
  • 20102010
  • 1h 26m
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5.3/10
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Das Leben ist zu lang (2010)
  • Comedy
  • Drama
Life is too long.Life is too long.Life is too long.
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  • Director
    • Dani Levy
  • Writer
    • Dani Levy
  • Stars
    • Markus Hering
    • Meret Becker
    • Veronica Ferres
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  • Director
    • Dani Levy
  • Writer
    • Dani Levy
  • Stars
    • Markus Hering
    • Meret Becker
    • Veronica Ferres
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    • 3User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
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    Markus Hering
    • Alfi Seligeras Alfi Seliger
    Meret Becker
    Meret Becker
    • Helena Seligeras Helena Seliger
    Veronica Ferres
    Veronica Ferres
    • Natashaas Natasha
    Hannah Levy
    • Romy Seligeras Romy Seliger
    David Schlichter
    • Alain Seligeras Alain Seliger
    Hans Hollmann
    • Holger Miesbach-Boronowskias Holger Miesbach-Boronowski
    Yvonne Catterfeld
    Yvonne Catterfeld
    • Caro Willas Caro Will
    Gottfried John
    Gottfried John
    • Georg Maria Stahlas Georg Maria Stahl
    Justus von Dohnányi
    Justus von Dohnányi
    • Johannesas Johannes
    Matthias Koeberlin
    Matthias Koeberlin
    Steffen Groth
    Steffen Groth
    • Bernardas Bernard…
    Holger Handtke
    Holger Handtke
    Fritz Roth
    Rolf Claussen
    Kurt Krömer
    Kurt Krömer
    • Anlageberateras Anlageberater
    Kirsten Sprick
    Emilio De Marchi
    Emilio De Marchi
    Mignon Remé
    • Director
      • Dani Levy
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      • Dani Levy
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    Life is too long.
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    • affair
    • attempted suicide
    • marriage problems
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      Featured in Willkommen Österreich: Die 115. Sendung: Elfriede Ott & Markus Hering (2010)

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    8/10
    A smartly realized film within a film (within a film?)
    Alfi Seliger is having an existential crisis.

    His family hates him, he's worried about cancer, he's shunned by his peers, his psychiatrist suggests that he kill himself and -- last but not least -- he's not sure if anything's real. Alfi, an on-the-rocks 50-something film director, has become convinced that he's living in somebody else's movie, that of Dani Levy, who actually is the director of this film -- and Alfi, his alter-ego -- in the brain-teasing "Life Is Too Long."

    Part screwball comedy, part paranoid thriller, Levy's "Life Is Too Long" concerns Alfi's quest to film a movie about the death of humor, framing the story around the Mohammed caricature controversy. As Alfi says at one point while receiving an award, to hilariously droll effect, "Comedies aren't only made to make people happy." But this German film within a film (and, in one particularly absurd scene, a film within a film within a film) also stands as an homage to Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories" and Federico Fellini's "8½."

    Markus Hering lights up the screen as Alfi, a bumbling, Mr. Magoo-type man-child sporting Gene Wilder hair, so at odds with himself, he can't distinguish the line between reality and the film he has been working on for years.

    "Life Is Too Long" has many laugh-out-loud or cringe-worthy scenes, depending on your sense of humor, including a Michael Jackson death joke, a shocking gag in the league of Oedipus marrying Jocasta in the Greek myth, and -- my favorite -- one which finds Alfi's daughter photographing his colonoscopy with her cellphone.

    Depending on your perspective when the credits roll, "Life Is Too Long" is either a film with a happy ending or a film that never ends.
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    • Release date
      • August 26, 2010 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Das Leben ist zu lang
    • Filming locations
      • Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • X-Filme Creative Pool
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $976,620
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 26 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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