Tschick

Tschick
Directed by Fatih Akın
Produced by Marco Mehlitz
Written by Lars Hubrich,
Hark Bohm,
Fatih Akin
Music by Vince Pope
Cinematography Rainer Klausmann
Edited by Andrew Bird
Release date
  • 12 September 2016 (2016-09-12) (World premiere)
  • 15 September 2016 (2016-09-15) (Germany)
Running time
93 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

Tschick (English: Goodbye Berlin) is a German 2016 comedy-drama film directed by Fatih Akın, based on Wolfgang Herrndorf's bestselling 2010 novel Tschick (released as Why We Took the Car in English countries). The film depicts two teenage outsiders from Berlin who go on an eccentric roadtrip through East Germany during the summer holidays. Tschick received mostly positive reviews in Germany.[1][2][3]

Cast

  • Tristan Göbel as Maik Klingenberg
  • Anand Batbileg as Andrej "Tschick" Tschichatschow
  • Nicole Mercedes Müller as Isa Schmidt
  • Aniya Wendel as Tatjana Cosic
  • Anja Schneider as Maik's mother
  • Uwe Bohm as Maik's father
  • Xenia Assenza as Mona, father's secretary
  • Udo Samel as Herr Wagenbach, teacher
  • Claudia Geisler as Mother of child-rich family
  • Marc Hosemann as village policeman
  • Alexander Scheer as the judge
  • Friederike Kempter as Maik's lawyer

References

  1. Höbel, Wolfgang: "'Tschick' on Speed". Der Spiegel, September 10, 2016, No. 37, page 130.
  2. Tschick review in Die Zeit, September 14 2016
  3. Rebhandl, Bert: "Wo liegt nochmal Nichts-wie-raus-hier?" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2016, No. 215, page 9.
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