Life could be so good for the children of Bollersdorf if the town had not been discovered by the Society for Consumer Research because of its mediocrity. New products are to be tested here. The market researchers know that what the people of Bollersdorf like sells well everywhere. But while the local parents enthusiastically take part, their children quickly get fed up with the annoying product testers. Even more so when they want to send their beloved grandmas and grandpas to a care home to bring the average age back into line. This is a case for the coati gang! Together with the clever coati Quatsch, the children hatch a clever plan: With adventurous inventions and crazy world records, they want to prove Bollersdorf's uniqueness so that the consumer researchers finally disappear again...
Direction
Veit Helmer's signature deadpan absurdism in full coati-powered force.
Practical Effects
Rube Goldberg contraptions that would make Wallace and Gromit proud.
Acting
Adults committing fully to being the oblivious villains of a child's universe.
Director
Veit Helmer
Benno Fürmann
Tierpfleger
Fritzi Haberlandt
Gaby
Margarita Broich
Elke
Samuel Finzi
Gerhard
Fabian Busch
Otto
Nadeshda Brennicke
Marianne
Jule Böwe
Sabine
Rolf Zacher
Richter der Weltrekorde
Udo Schenk
Stadtrat
Lissy Tempelhof
Julietta
Liane Forestieri
Claudia
Wolfram Koch
Jörg
Alexander Scheer
GKF-Manager
Eva Haßmann
TV-Journalistin
Susanne Bormann
Werbefamilie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Veit Helmer is obsessed with trains and once made a film shot entirely on the Moscow metro.
The film satirizes Germany's actual 'representative' test towns like Töging am Inn, where products are quietly trialed on unsuspecting populations.
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