Stellungswechsel (2007) on Netflix
Gy is in trouble with his insurance company, Olli's deli is going under, Giselher has been unemployed. With Lasse and Frank, the five start an escort service for women in Munich.
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Plot summary
Five men in Munich decide to offer themselves to women as escorts, charging for their company. Gy is a policeman at odds with his insurance company, and his romance with Daphne breaks off and starts again. Lasse is a young man who lives with his mother and is henpecked by her. Giselher is a former manager who has been unemployed for a long time. Frank, a philologist, spends his days as a house husband, while Olli owns a delicatessen that is going under. The five advertise their service in Munich and wait for women to answer, with no idea who will turn up.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Stellungswechsel (2007)
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- Florian Lukas had impressed director Maggie Peren with his turn in Sebastian Schippers' Absolute Giganten, but he only won the part of Frank after a Berlinale meeting convinced her that, despite usually being cast in youthful roles, he looked "old enough".
- According to director Maggie Peren, the screenplay went through sixteen earlier versions before the seventeenth draft was the one that finally went into production.
- Stellungswechsel was the first film project backed by Germany's German Film Funding Fund, which came into force in 2007 and put up 368,000 euros for the production.
- To prepare for her part as a police officer, Lisa Maria Potthoff, who had appeared with Sebastian Bezzel in Schwere Jungs in 2006, did a two-day shift-work internship at a police station in Bavaria.
- The delicatessen set for the film was built inside a vacant shop on the edge of a city motorway in the Giesing district.
