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7.0Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes.
Cast
- Sandra Hüller as Ines
- Peter Simonischek as Winfried / Toni
- Michael Wittenborn as Henneberg
- Thomas Loibl as Gerald
- Trystan Pütter as Tim
- Ingrid Bisu as Anka
Themes
- business woman
- birthday party
- family
- male masturbation
- death
- bucharest, romania
- death of mother
- dentures
- woman director
- painted face
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
54,800 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Metacritic
93/100
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 162 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 59 wins & 85 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Maren Ade
- Written by
- Maren Ade
- Produced by
- Maren Ade Jonas Dornbach Janine Jackowski Michel Merkt
- Starring
- Peter Simonischek Sandra Hüller Ingrid Bisu Michael Wittenborn Thomas Loibl Trystan Pütter Hadewych Minis Lucy Russell Vlad Ivanov Victoria Cocias
- Cinematography
- Patrick Orth [ de ]
- Edited by
- Heike Parplies [ de ]
- Production companies
- Komplizen Film coop99 filmproduktion KNM Missing Link Films SWR WDR Arte
- Distributed by
- NFP Marketing & Distribution, (Germany) Filmladen, (Austria)
- Release dates
- 14 May 2016 ( 2016-05-14 ) ( Cannes ) 14 July 2016 ( 2016-07-14 ) (Germany) 15 July 2016 ( 2016-07-15 ) (Austria)
- Running time
- 162 minutes
- Countries
- Germany Austria
- Languages
- German English Romanian
- Budget
- €3 million ( USD$ 3.2 million)
- Box office
- $11.7 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Toni Erdmann is a 2016 comedy drama film, produced, written and directed by Maren Ade. It stars Peter Simonischek as an eccentric man who intrudes upon the life of his daughter, a career-focused business executive played by Sandra Hüller.
Toni Erdmann premiered on 14 May 2016 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it competed in the main competition. It was released in Germany and Austria on 14 and 15 July, and grossed $11.7 million on a $3.2 million budget. The film received wide acclaim from critics for Ade's direction and writing, as well as Simonischek's and Hüller's performances. Sight & Sound named Toni Erdmann the best film of 2016. At the 29th European Film Awards, it won five awards, including Best Film (a first for a film directed by a woman). It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Toni Erdmann” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.