Special Escort
Stellungswechsel
The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren's tale of five male underdogs who promulgate themselves as female escorts in the city of Munich. Of that group, we meet policeman Gy, in hot water with his insurance company and enduring the vicissitudes of an on-again, off-again romance with comely Daphne; twentysomething Lasse, who lives with his mom and is pathetically henpecked by her; Giselher, a chronically unemployed former manager; Frank, a philologist who spends his days as a house husband; and Olli, a deli proprietor whose business is rapidly going under. These five conjure up the wild idea of charging for liaisons with emotionally needy women, but the scheme doesn't exactly go as planned - as none can even begin to anticipate the eccentricities or oddities of the female clients who turn up in response to their offer.
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Gustav Peter Wöhler
as Olli
Lisa Maria Potthoff
as Daphne
Nina Kronjäger
as Birte
Diana Staehly
as Sabine
Adriana Altaras
as Ulrike
Annette Kreft
as Inge
Florian Karlheim
as Tobi
Sebastian Bezzel
as Gy
Herbert Knaup
as Giselher
Ulrike Kriener
as Heide
Stefan Merki
as Reiner
Florian Lukas
as Frank
Kostja Ullmann
as Lasse
Simon Verhoeven
as Wick
Katharina Heyer
as Lydia
