Keinohrhasen

Infobox Film
name = Keinohrhasen
(No-ears-rabbits)


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director = Til Schweiger
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starring =Til Schweiger
Nora Tschirner
Wladimir Klitschko
Yvonne Catterfeld
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distributor = Warner Bros.
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runtime = 115 minutes
country = Germany
language = German
budget = € 4.2 mil
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website = http://wwws.warnerbros.de/keinohrhasen/
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"Keinohrhasen" is a German romantic comedy film by Til Schweiger in which he also plays the main character, Ludo. The film premiered in theaters across Germany on 20 December 2007 and by 20 April 2008 had reached 6 million viewers. [ [http://www.kino-zeit.de/news/artikel/9423_keinohrhasen-feiert-sechs-millionen-zuschauer.html kino-zeit.de - "Das Portal für Film und Kino"] 22 April 2008 de icon] Thus it is already one of the ten most successful German films in Germany since the beginning of the audience census in 1968.

Plot

"Ludo Dekker" is a Berlin based yellow press reporter. With his photographer "Moritz", his daily routine is to spy on celebrities for the tabloid "Das Blatt". He also uses his work for frequent sexual contacts with his objects of interest.

When heavyweight boxer and celebrity Wladimir Klitschko is about to toast his fiancee Yvonne Catterfeld at their engagement party, Ludo and Moritz are on the scene to report about it. Ludo breaks through a glass dome of the party venue, falls into the cake and is subsequently sentenced to 300 hours of community service at a daycare center.

There he meets "Anna Gotzlowski", the center's manager. Anna grew up in the same neighborhood as Ludo and used to be picked on and mocked by him. She gets her revenge by appointing him to perform humiliating tasks. Ludo cannot fight this as his parole is at stake. Still he is interested in one-night-stands, and has an affair with a child's mother who frequents the facility.

After a while, the tensions between Anna and Ludo dissipate and the two become friends. When Anna's date with another man goes awry, she appears at Ludo's flat seeking comfort. The two of them end up in bed, yet Anna's hope that this could develop into something more serious is destroyed for the time being.

At the end of the film, Ludo realizes that he feels more for Anna than he had previously thought. During a children's festival at the daycare centre, he crashes a performance and swears his love to Anna who sits in the audience with the children. After his discharge from the tabloid paper, he takes up work at Anna's facility.

The title

While doing handicraft at the daycare centre, Ludo sews a stuffed rabbit without ears. As Anna critcises him for it, he points at the fact that another rabbit made the child "Cheyenne-Blue" has no ears as well, because it is a "Keinohrhase", a No-ears-rabbit, which is able to hear through its nose. This scene was also used for the first teaser trailer.

Trivia

* For the first time, Til Schweiger acted together with his four children Valentin Florian, Luna Marie, Lilli Camille und Emma Tiger.
* The name Ludo is Latin and means "I play".
* A version of a music video for the title song "Apologize" by Timbaland feat. OneRepublic uses excerpts from the film.
* Scenes with Nora Tschirner and Jürgen Vogel on the red carpet during the Deutscher Filmpreis awards were acutually shot during the "Bundesfilmpreise 2007" ceremonies. [ http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0960790/trivia]
* The film's budget amounted to EUR 4.2 million. [ http://www.tvmovie.de/Keinohrhasen.506.0.html]
* Tyra Misoux, a German pornographic actress appears in a film on Ludo's TV set.
* During the whole Movie Til Schweiger and his Team played with german and international stereotypes or famous affairs i.e. the tabliod named "Das Blatt" is an allusion to the biggest german tabloid "BILD".Other Examples are the (pregnant) "Ministerluder", the Name "Chayenne Blue" or the bavarian couple.
* In the Movie there are lots of very famous german actors. The Maincharacters Ludo (Til Schweiger), Moritz (Matthias Schweighöfer), Jürgen Vogel (Jürgen Vogel), Anna (Nora Tschirner), The Director of "Das Blatt" (Rick Kavanian), can be descriped as good friends in real life. The character Anna is specially tailored to Nora Tschirner by Til Schweiger.

Awards

* 2008: Goldene Leinwand "with star" for more than 6 million viewers
* 2008: Bogey Awards in gold for 3 million viewers within 30 days
* 2008: Goldene Leinwand
* 2008: Ernst Lubitsch Prize

References

*reflist
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External links

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* [http://wwws.warnerbros.de/keinohrhasen/ Official Website] de icon