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TONI ERDMANN

FILM |Presented with the support of Sony Picture Classics and Los Angeles World Affairs Council

  • Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, Los Angeles

  • German with English Subtitles
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Writer-Director: Maren Ade, Germany, 2016, 162 min. German, English and Romanian with English subtitles, digital. Starring: Peter Simonschek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn

Desperate to re-connect with his jet-setting, corporate consultant daughter Ines (Sandra Hüller), practical joker Winfried (Peter Simonischek) takes a last-minute vacation to surprise her in Romania, where she is on assignment. When his initial attempts to get his daughter’s attention go ignored, Winfried reappears, disguised as the flashy, socially awkward life-coach “Toni Erdmann.”
Wishing only to get closer to his overworked daughter, Winfried stages a series of stunts all designed to soften her ever-hardening corporate driven heart.  The father-daughter game of "cat and mouse" reaches absurd proportions, until Ines begins to see that her eccentric father deserves a place in her life.
Never melodramatic, Ade’s third feature film is a satire that mocks power games and social representation, touching upon issues such as stress in the modern world, sexism in the workplace, the dehumanizing nature of the corporate world, as well as how families fail to communicate.  

Presented with the support of Sony Picture Classics and Los Angeles World Affairs Council

 


TONI ERDMANN is nominated the Best Foreign Language Film - 89th Academy Awards®

SELECT AWARDS:
  • Toronto International Film Festival, Special Presentation
  • WINNER 2016 Cannes Film Festival, FIPRESCI Prize

MAREN ADE: 39 year-old writer-director Maren Ade‘s graduation film from Munich’s HFF University of Television and Film, THE FOREST FOR THE TREES, won the Special Jury Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and a German Film Award nomination for Best Film. Her second feature, EVERYONE ELSE, won two Silver Bears at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. In 2000, she founded the film production company Komplizen Film with Janine Jackowski through which they produced, along with Jonas Dornbach, TONI ERDMANN.


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