LIFE ACTUALLY
synopsis
He has a wonderful family he barely ever sees anymore. He has a great job. He has a lovely home. Then... Bummm! – he gets fired! Art is his wife’s passion and her profession. Is she really honest to her man? And who are the new neighbors? His kids have their own attitudes to life. He treats them all as if they were his employees until the situation gets out of hand for all of them. Bummm! His son Linus blows up the neighbor’s sculpture and sets fire to the house. Bummm! His wife moves to her friend Claudia for the time being. Every end leads to a new beginning and everything stays in motion all the time.
international title: | Life Actually |
original title: | Das wahre Leben |
working title: | Bummm! |
country: | Germany, Switzerland |
sales agent: | Telepool |
year: | 2006 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Alain Gsponer |
film run: | 103' |
release date: | DE 01/03/2007 |
screenplay: | Alex Buresch, Matthias Pacht |
cast: | Ulrich Nöthen, Katja Riemann, Josef Mattes, Hannah Herzsprung, Volker Bruch |
cinematography by: | Matthias Fleischer |
film editing: | Melanie Werwie |
art director: | Renate Schmaderer |
music: | Marius Felix Lange |
producer: | Andreas Bareiss, Gloria Burkert, Bernd Burgemeister, David Groenewold, Andi Huber, Peter Reichenbach |
production: | BurkertBareiss Development, TV-60 Filmproduktion, SWR – Südwestrundfunk, BR Bayerischer Rundfunk, C-Films, SF (CH) |
backing: | FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg (DE) |
distributor: | Zorro Film |