Free Rainer (2007)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Hans Weingartner

Writers:

Katharina Held (writer)
Hans Weingartner (writer)

Release Date:

15 November 2007 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

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. |

Plot Keywords:

TV Channel | Television | Television Telephone Device | Television Show | Television Producer

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

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
Urs Conradi	...	Frau Arnim (as Us Conradi)
Franziska Knuppe	...	Maiwalds Freundin
Vinzenz Kiefer	...	Junger Kollege - Titanic Show

Also Known As:

Free Rainer - Dein Fernseher lügt (Germany) (new title)
Reclaim Your Brain (International: English title) (festival title)

Runtime:

120 min | Germany:138 min

Country:

Austria | Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:14A | Germany:12 | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Coop 99

Trivia:

Cameo: [Sarah Kuttner]Streetreporter

Movie Connections:

References Cape Fear (1962)

Refreshing nice...

This movie is what it claims to be! It does not claim to be realistic, it claims to be a funny revenge story on somewhat, what really needs to be revenged. This movie is not education, it's only a very small part and a wet revenge dream against the other part on the scale pan, we see everyday: The awful TV program, which became our religion. And on the other side, where it should be in balance, but is not - it's like that: Total Trash. Incredibly stupid game shows, which try to force people to call and to give money for nothing, like for example: "Yes now you can win even more, tell me when do you have birthday!... 21. of August?! Oh i am so sorry, you would have won if it were the 31. of June." Or somewhat - the next superstar model casting shows. - Like it's so good to get money for doing nothing. TV became our religion, so that we reconstruct our world from, what we see and believe to be real a few people tell us so (not very normal people, who have much free time to do so). And the problem is, that we partly have to believe that it is real, so i just don't get the critique of some people "Weingartner used trash to bury trash"... The problem is - our world is slowly becoming trashier everyday. So what. Hit it with it. It's just a nice and funny movie, which unfolds to show a bit how it could be and that supposed clarification is never total. This movie has the claim, what i would call, to have a nicotine patch effect on the media world. It's not as good as a cigarette (which is trash) but it tries to help against the pain. And i think this effect is the reason for bad comments. Not for me - Because of the message - i like it and give it a ten plus.