SUCK ME SHAKESPEER
synopsis
Zeki Mueller was in jail for 13 months, just enough time for Goethe High to construct a new gym on the exact spot where Zeki’s stripper friend, Charlie, buried his loot. In order to get regular access to the school’s basement, from where he hopes to drill a tunnel to his spoils, Zeki takes on a job as a substitute teacher offered to him by the prim principal (Katja Riemann, in a delicious cameo), who just lost a teacher because she’d been so maltreated by her students, she jumped from a second-floor window, shouting “They’re all monsters!” Nevermind that Zeki has no teaching certificate or any accurate knowledge of German...
international title: | Suck Me Shakespeer |
original title: | Fack ju Göhte |
country: | Germany |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Bora Dagtekin |
film run: | 118' |
release date: | DE 07/11/2013, FR 12/11/2014 |
screenplay: | Bora Dagtekin |
cast: | Elyas M'Barek, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann, Jana Pallaske, Alwara Höfels, Jella Haase, Max von der Groeben |
cinematography by: | Christof Wahl |
film editing: | Charles Ladmiral, Zaz Montana |
art director: | Thomas Göldner |
costumes designer: | Regina Tiedeken |
music: | Michael Beckmann |
producer: | Christian Becker, Lena Schömann |
production: | Rat Pack Filmproduktion, Constantin Film AG |
backing: | Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg |
distributor: | Constantin Film, Océan Films |