Friendship!

Friendship!

Colour, 35 mm
Germany, 2009, 108 min
Section: Variety Critics’ Choice

Director: Markus Goller
Screenplay: Oliver Ziegenbalg
Dir. of Photography: Ueli Steiger
Music:

Peter Horn, Andrej Melita, Martin Probst

Designer: Deborah Riley
Editor: Olivia Retzer
Producer: Quirin Berg, Tom Zickler, Max Wiedemann
Production: Wiedemann & Berg Productions GmbH & Co. KG
Sales: Bavaria Film International
Contact: Sony Pictures Releasing GmbH
Distributor: Palace Pictures
  
Cast: Matthias Schweighöfer, Friedrich Mücke, Alicja Bachleda

Synopsis

Two naive young East Germans hit the Stateside asphalt after the fall of the Berlin Wall in ’89 in Friendship! When the opportunity comes to travel abroad, the two go-getters decide to journey to San Francisco, where Veit’s father supposedly escaped to a decade earlier. Unfortunately, the two bright young optimists have only enough money to fly to Gotham, where, after telling passport control they’re not Nazis but communists ("Friendship!” they cry), they’re hauled into a back room and body-searched. Worse, they then realize their $55 will only get them as far as New Jersey, so they decide to hitch – initially with wacko Darryl to his hometown in Tennessee. Though the pair have only limited English, and even less knowledge of the U.S., the script soon soft-pedals linguistic and cultural misunderstanding as its main source of humor.

Markus Goller

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