The Story of My Wife (2021)

A feleségem története (original title)

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Jacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.

Director:

Ildikó Enyedi

Writers:

Ildikó Enyedi, Milán Füst

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2 wins & 3 nominations.
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Jacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.

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Cast

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	Léa Seydoux	...	Lizzy
	Gijs Naber	...	Captain Jakob Störr
	Louis Garrel	...	Dedin
	Sergio Rubini	...	Kodor
	Jasmine Trinca	...	Viola
	Luna Wedler	...	Grete
	Josef Hader	...	Herr Blume
	Udo Samel	...	Herr Voss
	Ulrich Matthes	...	Herr Lange
	Romane Bohringer	...	Mme Lagrange
	Sandor Funtek	...	Tommy
	Nayef Rashed	...	Habib
	Beniamino Brogi	...	1st Officer
	Simone Coppo	...	Ridolfi
	Herman Gilis	...	Mr. De Vries
	Michael Kehr	...	Boss
	Julia Droste	...	Zoe
	Justus Johanssen	...	Sailor 1
	Tulián Aczél	...	Sailor 2
	Károly Hajduk	...	The clerk
	Vanessa Vajda	...	Blonde girl
	Paula Donner	...	Brunette
	Erwin Giese	...	Shopkeeper
	Ralph Berkin	...	Kodor's Business Partner
	Nicolas Gidasewski	...	Police officer
	Emmanuel LeMire	...	Police officer (voice)
	Ambrus Evva	...	Police clerk
	Julien Alluguette	...	Police Clerk (voice)
	Vivien Rujder	...	Bunny
	Ferenc Darvas	...	Pianist in the Hotel
	Vicky von Minckwitz	...	Chestnut Vendor
	Péter Ajtai	...	Musician in the Bar
	Árpád Szabó	...	Musician in the Bar
	Kristóf Darvas	...	Musician in the Bar
	Ágoston Szabó Sipos	...	Musician in the Bar (as Szabó Sipos Ágoston)
	Janó Nemes	...	Musician in the Bar
	János Vázsonyi	...	Musician in the Bar
	Saïd Tichiti	...	Musician in the Bar
	Henrik Szöcs	...	Pianist at the Opera
	Tamás Boldizsár	...	Dancer (as Boldizsár Tamás)
	Dániel Bolla	...	Dancer
	Aranka Bóna	...	Dancer
	Gellért Bönöcz	...	Dancer
	Patrik Dávid	...	Dancer
	Orsolya Deák	...	Dancer
	Dániel Dragos	...	Dancer
	Enikö Farkas	...	Dancer
	Ádám Gyõri	...	Dancer
	Gyula Antal Horváth	...	Dancer
	Gyöngyvér Joó	...	Dancer
	Péter Keserü	...	Dancer
	Anett Kisbakonyi	...	Dancer
	István Róbert Kiss	...	Dancer
	Lendvai Zsolt	...	Dancer
	Erika Lódi	...	Dancer
	Réka Mama	...	Dancer
	Zsuzsanna Németh	...	Dancer
	Anna Rigó	...	Dancer
	Nikolett Szabó	...	Dancer
	Nándor Szalai	...	Dancer
	Bence Takács	...	Dancer
	Tóth Klaudia	...	Dancer
	Melinda Zsár	...	Dancer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Árpád Antolik	...	Restaurant Guest (uncredited)
	Sachin Yadav Iamsyrs	...	Director (uncredited)
	Simon Kerrison	...	Police officer (uncredited)
	Balázs Veres	...	Guy with Dog (uncredited)

Directed by

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Ildikó Enyedi

Written by

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Ildikó Enyedi	...	(adaptation)

Milán Füst	...	(novel)

Produced by

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Maren Ade	...	producer
Jonas Dornbach	...	producer
Peggy Hall	...	producer
Janine Jackowski	...	producer
Ernõ Mesterházy	...	producer
András Muhi	...	producer
Mónika Mécs	...	producer
Stéphane Parthenay	...	producer
Peggy Hall Plessas	...	executive producer
Olivier Père	...	co-producer
Pilar Saavedra Perrotta	...	producer
Federico Saraceni	...	line producer
Jean-Christophe Simon
Ildikó Szücs	...	assistant producer
Erika Tarr	...	line producer
Ben von Dobeneck	...	executive producer
Flaminio Zadra	...	producer

Music by

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Ádám Balázs

Cinematography by

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Marcell Rév

Editing by

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Károly Szalai

Editorial Department

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Réka Kobela	...	post-production coordinator (as Reka Kobela)
László Kovács	...	colorist
Eszter Málnási Csizmadia	...	assistant editor
Ilka Janka Nagy	...	assistant editor
Gábor Pethö	...	digital intermediate technician
György Szitár-Csanádi	...	post-production coordinator
Máté Ternyik	...	colorist: dailies
Dóra Vaszily	...	assistant editor

Casting By

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Irma Ascher
Nina Haun
Lilia Trapani

Production Design by

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Imola Láng

Art Direction by

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Beatrix Petõ

Set Decoration by

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Tamás Tamási
Mihály Tápai

Costume Design by

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Andrea Flesch

Makeup Department

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Chantal Busuttil	...	makeup artist
Karsten Drews	...	makeup artist
Ágnes Gazdag	...	makeup artist
Szilvia Ipacs	...	key makeup artist
Barbara Kreuzer	...	makeup designer
Sándor Nádasdi	...	hair department head / makeup department head
Áron Pintér	...	assistant makeup artist
Johanna Szücs	...	daily hair stylist
Zoltán Tóth	...	key hair stylist
Anita Törköly	...	crowd make-up supervisor

Production Management

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Anne Berjon	...	finance manager: France
Csaba Henyei	...	assistant production manager
Philippe Leconte	...	legal supervisor : France
Angelica Lorincz-Klotz	...	assistant production manager (as Angelica-Lörincz Klotz)
Edit Nagy	...	production manager
Jakob Neuhäusser	...	unit production manager: Germany
Nicola Perrucci	...	production manager
Sári Péli	...	unit manager
Péter Závorszky	...	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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László 'Samu' Bednárik	...	second assistant director (as László Bednárik Jr.)
Lili Birkás	...	Cast PA (as Birkás Lili)
Shawn Bäumer	...	additional crowd AD
Edina Galgócz	...	key second assistant director
Péter Karácsony	...	additional second assistant director
István Kolos	...	first assistant director
Rézi Koncz	...	assistant to director (as Teréz Koncz)
Borbála Nagy	...	additional third assistant director
Carolina Pontt	...	third assistant director: Malta
Benjámin Szabó	...	assistant director

Art Department

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Desiree Azzopardi	...	set dec buyer
Kirsty Bartolo	...	trainee art department assistant
Béla Blazsej	...	property master
Sára Enyingi	...	Production designer assistant: assistant art director
Luke Ferris	...	graphic designer
Benjamin Kiss	...	graphic designer
Helga Kovacs	...	assistant property master: Hamburg
Balázs M. Kovács	...	property master
Kálmán Kreidli	...	swing-gang
Haik Achim Lützow	...	carpenter
Csongor Magyar	...	property master assistant
Matthew Pace	...	property master
Natali Shershulskaya	...	assistant art director
Tamás Stadler	...	props
Ivett Szász	...	assistant set decorator
Mihály Tápai	...	set dresser
Szabó L. Zoltán	...	assistant set decorator

Sound Department

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Stefano Campus	...	sound mixer
Vincent Cosson	...	adr mixer
Noemi Hampel	...	sound designer
Daniel Iribarren	...	dialogue editor
Fred Mays	...	adr coordinator
Stefan Meutstege	...	additional adr engineer
Christoph Oertel	...	foley mixer
Carsten Richter	...	foley artist
Miklós Rozslay	...	ADR recordist Budapest
Matthias Schwab	...	re-recording mixer
Hanse Warns	...	foley mixer
Fabian Weigmann	...	ADR Recording
Tom Wenger	...	adr recordist

Special Effects by

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Gergely Csóri	...	special effects technician
Gábor Kiszelly	...	special effects supervisor (as Gabor Kiszelly)
Dominik Toth	...	special effects technician

Visual Effects by

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Mohamad Fawzi Alnazer	...	visual effects artist
Kiss Domonkos	...	visual effects
Shahab Hosseini	...	digital compositor
András Pflum	...	visual effects artist
Róbert Pálos	...	visual effects
Horog Péter	...	visual effects
Sheida Shahbaz	...	title sequence

Stunts

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Morgan Chetcuti	...	stunt coordinator
Steffan Debattista	...	stunts
Martin Goeres	...	fight choreographer / stunt coordinator
Zoltán Gulyás Kiss	...	stunt coordinator: Hungary
Wolfgang Lindner	...	stunt double: Jakob
Dexter Schembri	...	stunts
Asuka Tovazzi	...	stunt double: Taxi Driver

Camera and Electrical Department

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Juan José Alcaide	...	best boy
Marvin Baldacchino	...	best boy electric malta
Dániel Benkõ	...	first assistant camera: Malta Unit
Péter Böszörményi	...	first assistant camera
Logan Camilleri	...	electrician
Sandro Camilleri	...	electrician
Bence Czeh	...	best boy grip / grip
Sándor Domonkos	...	loader
Zoltán Dévényi	...	camera operator: second unit
Nikolett Dósa	...	video assist operator
Péter Krajnyák	...	First AC B Camera
Csaba Mecseki	...	second assistant camera
Róbert Nagy	...	Best boy grip / Underwater camera operator
Ádám Pichler-Balassy	...	bestboy grip (as Pichler-Balassy Adam) / dolly grip (as Pichler-Balassy Adam) / grip (as Pichler-Balassy Adam)
Gábor Pápai	...	auto grip

Casting Department

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Brenda Camilleri	...	casting coordinator
Alrun Seifert	...	casting assistant: Germany

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Amelia Bianchi	...	costume assistant
Cheikh Asaad Cynthia	...	key costumer
Izabell Janositz	...	costume supervisor
Flora Kovacs	...	assistant costume designer
Miklós Udvardy	...	costumer
Krisztina Weizer	...	wardrobe supervisor
Martina Zammit Maempel	...	costume supervisor malta unit

Location Management

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Kirsty Bartolo	...	location production assistant
Craig Linstead	...	location assistant
Dávid Surányi	...	location manager (as Surányi Dávid)

Music Department

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Bence Bobák	...	recording engineer/assistant score engineer
Bence Farkas	...	composer: additional music / musical director
György Mohai	...	score recorded and mixed by

Script and Continuity Department

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Krisztina Szigeti

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script supervisor

Transportation Department

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Charles Buhagiar	...	production driver
Péter Bánó	...	picture car coordinator (as Bánó Péter)
Jan Kubkowski	...	picture vehicle coordinator

Additional Crew

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Edgardo Altieri	...	legal services
Yuri Belli	...	safety diver
Sara Bengoa-Nagy	...	assistant to leading actress
Rachele Bevacqua	...	accountant
Johanna Bodor	...	choreographer
Anna Brückner	...	production coordinator
Clara Eymery	...	production assistant france
Szabina Gyori	...	clearances
Peggy Hall	...	dialect coach
Miklós Horvát	...	car supplier (as Horvát Miklós)
Dany Héricourt	...	dialog coach
Béla Király	...	co-choreographer
Philippe Leconte	...	legal supervisor: France
Gábor Molnár	...	medical team supervisor
Anikó B. Nagy	...	historical consultant
Chiara Pacini	...	production coordinator
János Papp	...	health & safety advisor
Diána Pálfalvi	...	medical coordinator
Alina Tomashova	...	production coordinator
Ádám Zsíros	...	production assistant
Francesca Floris	...	production assistant (uncredited)

Thanks

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Jean Pierre Borg	...	special thanks
Iole Giannattasio	...	special thanks
Johann Grech	...	special thanks
Thekla Reuten	...	special thanks
Susan Ronald	...	special thanks

Production Companies

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Inforg-M&M Film Kft.
Komplizen Film (co-production)
Palosanto Films (co-production)
Pyramide Productions (in association with)
Rai Cinema (co-production)
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (co-production)
ARTE (co-production)
Arte France Cinéma (co-production)
ARTE (in association with)
National Film Institute (in association with)
Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT) (in association with)
Eurimages (in association with)
Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (in association with)
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (in association with)
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (in association with)
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (in association with)
Malta Film Commission (in association with)
Dorje Film (in association with)

Distributors

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Films Boutique (2021) (World-wide)
Alamode Film (2021) (Germany) (theatrical)
Altre Storie (2022) (Italy) (theatrical)
Aya Pro (2021) (Japan) (theatrical)
BTeam Pictures (2021) (Spain) (theatrical)
Cola Films (2022) (Taiwan) (theatrical)
Discovery Film & Video Distribution (2022) (Croatia) (theatrical)
Film Europe Media (2021) (Slovakia) (theatrical)
Film Europe (2021) (Czechia) (theatrical)
Fivia (2022) (Slovenia) (theatrical)
Impacto Cine (2024) (Argentina) (theatrical)
Megacom Films (2022) (Bosnia & Herzegovina) (theatrical)
Mozinet (2021) (Hungary) (theatrical)
Panda Lichtspiele Filmverleih (2021) (Austria) (theatrical)
Pyramide Distribution (2022) (France) (theatrical)
Russian Report (2022) (Belarus) (theatrical)
Russian Report (2022) (Russia) (theatrical)
September Film (2022) (Belgium) (theatrical)
September Film (2022) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
Strada Films (2021) (Greece) (theatrical)
Svoe Kino (2022) (Ukraine) (theatrical)
ARTE Mediathek (2024) (Germany) (video) (VoD)
ARTE Mediathek (2024) (France) (video) (VoD)
ARTE (2024) (Germany) (tv)
ARTE (2024) (France) (tv)
Alamode Film (2022) (Germany) (DVD)
Aurora Films (2021) (Poland)
Best Film (2021) (Bulgaria)
Film1 (2023) (Netherlands) (tv) (limited)
Filmarti (2021) (Turkey)
Filmcoopi Zürich (2021) (Switzerland)
Front Row Filmed Entertainment (2021) (United Arab Emirates) (Middle East)
Leopardo Filmes (2022) (Portugal)
MegaCom Film (MCF) (2021) (Serbia)

Special Effects

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Other Companies

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Abacus Consult (accounting)
COPRA Dailies System (dailies services)
Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (funding)
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (funding)
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (funding)
Freeway CAM B.V. (collection account management)
Government of Malta (funding)
MEDIA Programme of the European Union (funding)
MG Action (stunts)
Malta Film Commission (funding)
Maximus Distribution (production service: Malta)
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (funding)
Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT) (funding)
MovieScore Media (soundtrack)
Showrisk (insurance broker: Hungary)
Theaterkunst (costume rental)
Tonstudio Hanse Warns (foley stage)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords	male-rear-nudity infidelity unfaithful-wife betrayal sea-captain See All (48) »
Genres	Drama Romance
Parents Guide	View content advisory »
Certification	Argentina:13 (with warning) Australia:MA15+ Belgium:12 Colombia:12 France:Tous publics Germany:12 Italy:T Japan:PG12 Netherlands:12 Poland:12 Portugal:M/14 Russia:16+ Spain:12 Switzerland:12

Additional Details

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Also Known As	Die Geschichte meiner Frau (Germany) Storia di mia moglie (Italy) L'histoire de ma femme (France) The Story of My Wife (Indonesia, English title) The Story of My Wife: The Flounderings of Jakob Störr in Seven Lessons (Canada, English title) See more »
Runtime	169 min
Official Sites	Alamode Film Films Boutique Inforg-M&M Film Kft. Komplizen Film Official Facebook Pyramide Distribution Pyramide Productions
Country	Hungary Germany Italy France
Language	English French Dutch German Italian
Color	Color
Aspect Ratio	1.85 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix	Dolby Digital
Filming Locations	Hungary See more »

Box Office

Budget

HUF1,150,000,000 (estimated)

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