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Title: Toni Erdmann (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sandra Hüller | ... | Ines Conradi | |
| Peter Simonischek | ... | Winfried | |
| Michael Wittenborn | ... | Henneberg | |
| Thomas Loibl | ... | Gerald | |
| Trystan Pütter | ... | Tim | |
| Ingrid Bisu | ... | Anca | |
| Hadewych Minis | ... | Tatjana | |
| Lucy Russell | ... | Steph | |
| Victoria Cocias | ... | Flavia | |
| Alexandru Papadopol | ... | Dascalu | |
| Victoria Malektorovych | ... | Natalja (as Viktoria Malektorovych) | |
| Ingrid Burkhard | ... | Annegret | |
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Jürg Löw | ... | Gerhard |
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Ruth Reinecke | ... | Renate |
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Nicolas Wackerbarth | ... | Coach Leopold |
Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy alter ego. Disguised in a tacky suit, weird wig and fake teeth, Toni barges into Ines' work circle, claiming to be her CEO's life coach. As Toni, Winfried doesn't hold back, and Ines meets the challenge. The harder they push, the closer they become. In all the madness, Ines begins to see that her eccentric father deserves a place in her life. Written by Official site
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I liked this movie a lot. I met "these" people over the last 25 years in Bucharest and in Germany.
In this "new global world", the most of the time everybody is so deep into the details of "knowing how to be" because everybody is already like this, that if you take a step back and watch from a different angle you might wonder if anyone still remembers what it is to be a human. To remember the pleasure of feeling secure and loved by the ones that are guaranteed to be the ones that will do so. And finally if you get the right angle, you have to admit that everyone around you looks ridiculously, trying to find the detail in the detail that would make a difference, even if everybody does everything identically and there is obviously nothing else. The game about being a tough global business-woman/man, up to the most disgusting proofs to be the tougher one, is finally just flat and meaningless.
The whole story is wonderful true. The actors are doing a fantastic job making you feel the frustration and discomfort that should be seen and felt by everyone living in such a world. It is not a slow movie ... it is the shortest version of an never-ending slow life with nothing that would make your heart pound for the true meanings.
This movie brought two points to my mind. Einstein defined madness: - Trying the same thing again and again while expecting a different outcome. - Google was build on the simple idea that everybody is searching for something that everybody is already mentioning... Try to type "Apple" in the Google search field