Based on Tommy Jaud's bestselling novel, this comedy focuses on a dispassionate clerk and his set-backs in life. 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts just circle around finding a new girl-friend after being left by his last one year ago. While his Croatian cleaner tries to procure him, his efforts to chat up women in clubs also fail. However, he finds the woman of his dreams (and mother of their future children) in his most hated coffee shop, although not having a clue how to win her heart...
Acting
Oliver Pocher somehow makes Simon pathetic AND weirdly sympathetic.
Production
Cologne as character—gritty, specific, unglamorous German urbanity.
Writing
Tommy Jaud's dialogue captures the art of saying everything wrong.
Director
Tobi Baumann
Oliver Pocher
Simon Peters
Tanja Wenzel
Paula
Tomas Spencer
Steve
Anke Engelke
Chefin
Adriana Altaras
Lala
Ellenie Salvo González
Marcia P. Garcia
Friederike Kempter
Tina
Bettina Lamprecht
Doerte
Julia Stinshoff
Katja
Jana Pallaske
Petra
Daniela Preuss
Daniela
Adolfo Assor
Julian
Michael Lott
Polizist Malte
Matthias Matschke
Polizist Broder
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tommy Jaud's novel was part of a 2000s German 'lad lit' wave that made mediocre men temporarily culturally relevant.
Oliver Pocher was primarily a comedian and TV host—this was his rare lead film role, basically playing himself if he worked retail.
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