Life Is Too Long
Das Leben ist zu lang
Release: 2010-08-26
·Runtime: 86m
·★ 5.0
No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in problems: his pubescent children Romy and Alain find him ridiculous, his wife Helena would be happy if she only found him ridiculous, his bank is going bankrupt and his new film project is finding it difficult to meet with approval. Friend becomes foe, hope becomes paranoia and when even his psychiatrist advises him to end his life, Alfi Seliger attempts a theatrical exit. But as befits a born "Nebbich", a lovable loser, even this fails - he survives and only appears to awaken in his old life...
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
ARD
Cast
Heino Ferch
as Professor Mohr
Emilio De Marchi
Adriana Altaras
Yvonne Catterfeld
as Caro Will
Holger Handtke
Oliver Polak
Karoline Herfurth
Guido Maria Kretschmer
Matthias Koeberlin
Anja Franke
Tyron Ricketts
Jasmin Tabatabai
Kurt Krömer
as Anlageberater
Steffen Groth
as Bernard / Leonard von Kitzbühl
Daniel Zillmann
Henry Hübchen
Marco Kreuzpaintner
Joseph Vilsmaier
Johann von Bülow
Elke Sommer
as Alfis Mutter
Katja Riemann
Marion Kracht
Dani Levy
Leo Altaras
Markus Hering
as Alfi Seliger
Gottfried John
as Georg Maria Stahl
Michael Herbig
Veronica Ferres
as Natasha
Mignon Remé
Burghart Klaußner
Stefan Kurt
Otto Sander
Tom Schilling
Justus von Dohnányi
as Johannes
Udo Kier
as Tabatabai
Fritz Roth
Katrin Sass
Meret Becker
as Helena Seliger