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Der Bewegte Mann (1994)
Director: Sönke Wortman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Doro (Riemann) catches boyfriend Axel (Schweiger) in flagrante and kicks him out; he winds up sharing a place with gay acquaintance Norbert (Król); but, after learning she's pregnant, she begins to suspect there's something going on between her ex and his new flatmate. By way of proof, she finds Norbert naked in the wardrobe. Preening cross-dresser Walter (Beck) and sad-faced Norbert offer us a choice of gay stereotypes, but director Wortmann has nothing but sympathy for their pangs of lust for the leading man, and even suggests that his desires are a lot less straight and narrow than he'd care to admit. Unfortunately, just when you think the film's turned all liberating and subversive, it wheels on a brazenly throwaway finale and, disappointingly, ends up endorsing the heterosexual coupledom it's been trying to undercut. Billed as the most successful German comedy of all time. Moderately diverting.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Sönke Wortman
Producer: Bernd Eichinger
Cast: Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Król, Rufus Beck, Antonia Lang, Nico van der Knaap full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 94 mins
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