Bewegte Mann, Der (1994)

Director:

Sönke Wortmann

Writers:

Ralf König (comic)
Sönke Wortmann (writer)

Release Date:

12 July 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay he met some days before.

Plot Keywords:

Movie Theater | Crude Humor | Marriage | Transvestite | Male Nudity

Awards:

9 wins

Cast

Til Schweiger	...	Axel Feldheim
Katja Riemann	...	Doro Feldheim
Joachim Król	...	Norbert Brommer
Rufus Beck	...	Walter aka 'Waltraut'
Armin Rohde	...	Metzger
Nico van der Knaap	...	Fränzchen
Antonia Lang	...	Elke Schmitt
Martina Gedeck	...	Jutta
Judith Reinartz	...	Claudia
Kai Wiesinger	...	Gunnar
Horst Scheel	...	Gunter
Christof Wackernagel	...	Ruediger
Martin Armknecht	...	Lutz
Heinrich Schafmeister	...	Klaus Dieter
Helmut Buchel	...	Dirk

Also Known As:

Maybe... Maybe Not (USA)
The Most Desired Man (International: English title)
The Turbulent Man

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Colour:

Colour (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:M (TV rating) | Argentina:18 | Australia:MA | Chile:18 | Denmark:7 | Finland:K-14 | Germany:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

Live Entertainment

Trivia:

Based on the books "Der Bewegte Mann" and "Pretty Baby", written by cartoonist Ralf König, who appears as a drag-queen.

Quotes:

Doro Feldheim: [after hanged up the phone hearing a male voice] That was a man!
Jutta: So, in addition she's married.
Doro Feldheim: [hysterical] That was a homosexual guy!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Katja Riemann (2006) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Kleines Fräulein, einen Augenblick

German comedy is not an oxymoron!

Based on the work of Ralf König -- the king (no pun intended) of the Teutonic queer comic strip -- Wortmann has made a film about the vicissitudes of coming out. Hand in hand, these two men from the country of "poets and thinkers" dare utter the words: "we are German, we are funny, and we are not ashamed!" In case you missed Wortmann's "Kleine Haie" (1992) -- a road film about three young men coming to grips with their thespianism -- here's proof that comedy is not merely a genre inflicted unilaterally by Hollywood on the rest of the world. Although this film does make concessions in order to be more palatable to its hetero viewership, it is clearly head-and-shoulders above recent Hollywood forays into the queer-exploitation venue such as the abysmal "In&Out" featuring Kevin Kline. After Fassbinder and Wenders it now looks like Germany has a commercially viable director with something worthwhile to say!