TONI ERDMANN

Winfried doesn’t see much of his working daughter Ines. The suddenly student-less music teacher decides to surprise her with a visit after the death of his old dog. It’s an awkward move because serious career woman Ines is working on an important project as a corporate strategist in Bucharest. The geographical change doesn’t help the two to see eye to eye any better. Practical joker Winfried loves to annoy his daughter with corny pranks. What’s worse are his little jabs at her routine lifestyle of long meetings, hotel bars and performance reports. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to return home to Germany. Enter dazzling “Toni Erdmann”: Winfried’s smooth-talking alter ego. Disguised in a tacky suit, weird wig and even weirder fake teeth, Toni barges into Ines’ professional life, claiming to be her CEO’s life coach. Wilder and bolder than Winfried, Toni doesn’t hold back, and Ines meets the challenge. The harder they push, the closer they become. In all the madness, Ines begins to understand that her eccentric father might deserve some place in her life after all.

Director

MAREN ADE studied at the University of Television & Film (HFF/M) in Munich. Together with Janine Jackowski, she founded the production company Komplizen Film in 2000. Also active as a producer, her award-winning films as a director include: the shorts EBENE 9 (2000) and VEGAS (2001), and the features THE FOREST FOR THE TREES (DER WALD VOR LAUTER BÄUMEN, 2003), EVERYONE ELSE (ALLE ANDEREN, 2009), and TONI ERDMANN (2016).

Maren AdePoster RTONI ERDMANN
Maren Ade (photo © Iris Janke)
photos © Komplizen Film
  • Logo Competition
    Genre
    Drama
  • CATEGORY
    Feature
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2016
  • DIRECTOR
    Maren Ade
  • SCREENPLAY
    Maren Ade
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Patrick Orth
  • CAST
    Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Pütter, Hadewych Minis, Lucy Russell, Ingrid Bisu, Vlad Ivanov, Victoria Cociaş
  • PRODUCERS
    Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Michel Merkt
  • CO-PRODUCERS
    Bruno Wagner, Antonin Svoboda, David Keitsch, Sebastian Schipper
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Komplizen Film, in co-production with coop99, knm, Missing Link Films, SWR, WDR, ARTE
  • RUNTIME
    162 min
  • LANGUAGE
    German, English
  • FESTIVALS
    Cannes 2016 (In Competition)
  • SALES
    The Match Factory
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