TONI ERDMANN

TONI ERDMANN, 2016

Germany | DCP, Color, 162’ | German, English

Director: Maren Ade

Cast: Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn

Winfred, who thinks that he is not close enough with his workaholic daughter Ines, is a music teacher without students. He goes to visit his daughter who is working on an important project in Budapest but their time together doesn’t turn out the way he envisaged it. Winfred re-enters his daughter’s life as a life coach and counsellor and pulls pranks on her with his fake teeth, worn-out suit and strange wig to take her out from the capitalist world in which she is suffocating. The film that makes the audience burst into laughter in almost every scene was widely acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival and is one of the front-runners at the Oscars.