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6.7/10   1,331 votes
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Writers:
Katharina Held (writer)
Hans Weingartner (writer)
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Release Date:
15 November 2007 (Germany) more
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Plot:
Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution. | full synopsis
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Cast

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Moritz Bleibtreu ... Rainer
Elsa Schulz Gambard ... Pegah (as Elsa Sophie Gambard)
Milan Peschel ... Phillip
Gregor Bloéb ... Maiwald
Tom Jahn ... Bernd
Andreas Brandt ... Karl-Heinz
Robert Viktor Minich ... Harry
Ralf Knicker ... Sebastian
Irshad Panjatan ... Gopal
Simone Hanselmann ... Anna
Doris Golpashin ... Showmoderatorin (as Doris Goldpashin)
Peer Jäger ... Gründgens
Us Conradi ... Frau Arnim
Franziska Knuppe ... Maiwalds Freundin

Vinzenz Kiefer ... Junger Kollege - Titanic Show
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Free Rainer - Dein Fernseher lügt (Germany) (new title)
Reclaim Your Brain (International: English title) (festival title)
Reclaim Your Brain! (Australia)
TV Lies (Finland) (DVD title) [fi]
Ta myala mas piso (Greece) [el]
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Runtime:
120 min | Germany:138 min
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References Shadow of Chinatown (1936/I) more

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5 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
Free Rainer, 3 February 2008
9/10
Author: henrik-ragnevi from Sweden

There is something when it comes to film and German, during their film history they have give us several of the best films ever made, but the latest decay film in German has only been about Tom Tykwer. Perheaps Hans Weingartner is the man to change that, his earlier film Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei was a great comedy/drama. In this film he is using basically the same theory, but it is much better done. It is not about young people protesting against society, it is about a man that wakes up and discover that everything he stands for is "shit", and then gathering some folks to start a revolution against the entertainment industry and television companies. The film entertains until the end.

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