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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   1,282 votes
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Director:
Hans Weingartner
Writers:
Katharina Held (writer)
Hans Weingartner (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
15 November 2007 (Germany) more
Genre:
Drama more
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
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Tykwer/Weingartner/Akin Find Bank in Hamburg
 (From ioncinema. 11 June 2008)

User Comments:
Wild and funny more (13 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
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
Country:
Austria | Germany
Language:
German
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Berlin, Germany more
Company:
Coop 99 more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Director Cameo: [Hans Weingartner]Network creative #2 in the conference scene near the end more
Movie Connections:
Features "60 Minutes" (1968) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Wild and funny, 27 April 2008
10/10
Author: (frankarmtage) from New York City

We saw this film in a screening down at the film society. Loved it. This film is an excellent comment on the sick media world. Quite dramatic and brutal in the first part, warm and funny in the second. Full of mad ideas. A prankster movie and at the same time a political statement on the brainwash. Is it comedy? Drama? I don't know. Does it matter?

Definitely worth seeing. I also really loved it, because it's so different from the standard European art-house flicks. More fun, more diverse, crazier. A raw film. Moritz Bleibtreu, the male lead, seems to be one of Germany's finest. Camera is doc style, hand-held, but never nauseating.

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