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Der Vorname (2018)

| Comedy | 18 October 2018 (Germany)
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Stephan (Christoph Maria Herbst) and his wife Elisabeth (Caroline Peters) organize a dinner in their house in Bonn. Invited are family friend René (Justus von Dohnányi), Thomas (Florian ... See full summary »

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Sönke Wortmann

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Claudius Pläging, Matthieu Delaporte (play) | 1 more credit »

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Iris Berben, Florian David Fitz, Christoph Maria Herbst | See full cast & crew »
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Cast

Credited cast:
Iris Berben ... Dorothea Böttcher
Florian David Fitz ... Thomas
Christoph Maria Herbst ... Stephan
Serkan Kaya Serkan Kaya ... Pizzabote
Caroline Peters Caroline Peters ... Elisabeth
Janina Uhse ... Anna
Justus von Dohnányi Justus von Dohnányi ... René
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Stephan (Christoph Maria Herbst) and his wife Elisabeth (Caroline Peters) organize a dinner in their house in Bonn. Invited are family friend René (Justus von Dohnányi), Thomas (Florian David Fitz) and his pregnant girlfriend Anna (Janina Uhse). But the parents of an unborn boy make sure that the evening planned as a cozy get-together suddenly gets out of hand: they announce that they want to call their child Adolf and thus cause a scandal.

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Remake of the French movie 'Le Prénom' from 2012. Le Prénom is an adaptation from the French play from 2010 written by Matthieu Dela ported and Alexandre de La Patellière. See more »

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When Stephan is arguing with Jana about the name of the child over dinner a crew member is reflected in the windows behind Jana for a few seconds. See more »

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Remake of What's in a Name? (2012) See more »

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LoW Budget and low content
4 November 2018 | by suendamere – See all my reviews

You could tell the whole plot in 20 minutes.

There were some critical themes in the first few minutes. They were expendable. After that it was just a bad family story plot. German film is dead.
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