All You Need is Love (Meine Schwiegertochter ist ein Mann) (2009) directed by Edzard Onneken

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Director: Edzard Onneken

Writers: Kerstin Österlin (screenplay) &
Jessica Schellack (screenplay)

Release Date: 3 November 2009 (Germany)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Plot: The divorced Katharina Remming lives in an Alpine village in Bavaria. One day she receives from her son Hans, who is a Berlin architecture student, the message that he wants to marry Nicki. Katharina has never seen Nicki and assuming that it is a female name, she falls from the clouds when Nicki turns out to be a man. So far, she has never dealt with homosexuality, and therefore she doesn't know how she should react. Without further ado, she sends Nicki and Hans out of the door.

Both of them go into the village inn and the next morning they are seen by a villager while kissing. Soon the whole village knows that Hans is gay, and all the prejudices of the villagers appear evident. Even Hans' father, Christian, initially doesn't accept the homosexuality of his son. Throughout the film he becomes closer to his ex-wife, Katharina, and sees that their son has found the love of his life and it doesn't matter to them that he is in love with a man.

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Cast (in credits order)
Andreas Helgi Schmid ... Hans Remminger
Manuel Witting ... Nickolas 'Nicki'
Saskia Vester ... Katharina Remminger
Jürgen Tonkel ... Christian Remminger
Jenny Elvers ... Vera Remminger (as Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen)
Franziska Traub ... Rosi
Johannes Herrschmann ... Alois
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Heide Ackermann ... Pensionswirtin
Kerstin Dietrich ... Andrea
Wolfgang Fischer ... Moosleitner (as Wolfi Fischer)
Bernhard Huber ... Herr Kratzer
Frederic Linkemann ... Clemens
Thomas Meinhardt ... Standesbeamter
Stefan Merki ... Dr. Christian Rappel
Katharina Müller-Elmau ... Gerhild Huber
Maverick Queck ... Murasaki
Frank Röth ... Pfarrer Schmidtbauer

  
Hans & Nicki

Comments

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I don't know how easy it's for who is not living in Europe to see this tv movie, it aired only on satellite in European channel. Anyway the movie is nice, tender and funny; it has a bit of cliche, but they are dealt with a light hand, so the movie is not too much irrealistic. It's for sure a "good feelings" movie, all together happy type of movie. The main fault is maybe the ending, it felt a bit rushed, like they needed to stay inside a time limit: there are a lot of questions that are answered in the end but I didn't see the logic process to arrive to that answer. Anyway, looking back to all the too sad gay-themed movies around, this one is a nice change.

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

This looks so lovely. I hope I get to see it.

Please tell me it's a happy ending. So many gay films that start out like this turn out with tragic endings.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Absolutely Happy Ending ;-) And there is also a nice naked scene LOL Elisa

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

That's good news. Now I need to find out if it comes with subtitles and then I'd definitely grab it. LOL

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Good hunt! Elisa