TAXI
synopsis
Hamburg, mid 80’s, Alex is a cabby because she can’t decide what to do with her life. The Music is hard, pubs are dark and loud. People argue about anything and everything, people constantly smoke – not just cigarettes. Alex is looking for love and freedom and she sleeps with Dietrich – the sex is ok, but it’s far from being love. With Marc, however, a short man of great dignity, she finds more. The passengers she drives are drunks, ignorants and other misfits. She could go on like this forever, or – she could drive away, and leave it all behind her. In doing so, she would lose Marc and not get rid of Dietrich. A little monkey, who shares her desire for freedom, intervenes…
international title: | Taxi |
original title: | Taxi |
country: | Germany |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Kerstin Ahlrichs |
film run: | 98' |
release date: | DE 20/08/2015 |
screenplay: | Karen Duve |
cast: | Rosalie Thomass, Peter Dinklage, Stipe Erceg, Robert Stadlober, Antoine Monot Jr., Özgür Karadeniz |
cinematography by: | Sonja Rom |
film editing: | Florentine Bruck-Ramisch |
costumes designer: | Katja Waffenschmied |
music: | Michel van Dyke, Florian Tessloff |
producer: | Dieter Zeppenfeld, Rudi Teichmann |
co-producer: | Birgit Rothörl, Wolfgang Rieger, Frank Evers, Helge Neubronner, Jörg Westerkamp |
production: | B&T Film, Schubert International Film, Zinnober Film, cine plus Filmproduktion, ApolloMedia |
backing: | Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Nordmedia, DFFF, BKM, FFA. |
distributor: | Farbfilm Verleih GmbH |