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Weißt was geil wär...?! (2007)

97 min · Comedy

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Directors

Mike Marzuk

Cast

Axel Schreiber, Isaak Dentler, Nadja Bobyleva, Hedwig Posdzich, Nicholas Reinke, Tina Grawe, Philippine Pachl

Two aimless friends decide to make a film and take in a roommate, whose energy upends their stalled lives.

The story

Students in name, Tommy and Heinz spend their days loafing around, playing computer games and dreaming of making a hit movie, but their plans go nowhere. At a party, Heinz pretends to be a filmmaker to impress Marie, an actress, and she falls for the story. Eventually the friends decide to make a movie themselves, though they have no money. To finance it, they look for a roommate through auditions and choose Lisa, an aspiring acting student who has recently left her boyfriend. Unlike the two talkative idlers, Lisa is decisive: she soon takes them to a test shoot, while her presence begins to change Tommy’s perspective on his past and his stalled future.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

The two friends Tommy and Heinz are students, but they know the university lecture hall only from stories. They spend their days loafing around in a dreary routine of cornflakes with sour milk, salami pizza, and computer games. They actually dream of making a big movie one day, but since that would involve work too, their great film careers are going nowhere for the time being. At least Heinz, a heartbreaker, is already pretty good at pretending to be a filmmaker to impress women. At a party, Heinz meets Marie, an actress in a TV series. She falls for the deception too and ends up in bed with the supposed director. Things could go on like this forever: lounging around, eating, partying, women—a never-ending cycle. But then there’s that idea, the dream of making their own film. A genuine box-office smash, any genre will do, as long as it’s not a romantic relationship drama. Tommy and Heinz decide they really should give it a try. But they don’t have the money. Their solution: they decide to bring someone into their apartment and use the rent to finance the film. To find a roommate, they do what so-called film people do best: hold auditions. Several applicants are in the running. In the end, they decide by playing rock-paper-scissors, and Lisa, an aspiring acting student, moves in. She has just left her boyfriend, whom she caught in the act with Annabel, Tommy’s ex-girlfriend. Lisa is the opposite of the two sluggish big talkers. She doesn’t just talk; she’s a woman of action. While Tommy and Heinz are still figuring out what order their names should appear in the film credits, Lisa is already taking them to their first test shoot for her next audition. And, incidentally, she completely turns Tommy’s head in particular. He is actually still hung up on his ex-girlfriend. Lisa, with her fresh and open manner, comes along at exactly the right moment. It’s time to end old relationships and finally dare to make a fresh start. The two slowly grow closer, but neither makes the decisive first move; neither confesses their feelings. Tommy is torn. On the one hand, he still has Annabel on his mind; on the other, he has long since fallen in love with Lisa. And just at this point, his old love gets back in touch after a long silence. Tommy realizes: Even if hope dies last, it still dies. He chooses Lisa. When he comes home after his final meeting with Annabel and hears Heinz and Lisa moaning and screaming, his world falls apart. He has always known that Heinz was after Lisa too. He hastily moves in with his gay friend Bruno. What he doesn’t know is that the two had merely been rehearsing and were acting out the famous orgasm scene from the American film When Harry Met Sally.

Genres

Comedy

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