“Marriage is the beginning and the summit of all culture.” (Goethe).
All good things come in threes: After the successful social comedies THE FIRST NAME and LAST NAME available in THE NICKNAME Now a reunion with the lovable, if somewhat dysfunctional, extended Böttcher-Wittmann-Berger-König family: successful director Sönke Wortmann stages the third part in the usual pointed, complex and, above all, highly amusing way. The star ensemble once again plays the leading roles Iris Berben, Christoph Maria Herbst, Florian David Fitz, Caroline Peters, Justus von Dohnanyi and Janina Uhsewhich gathers in front of the camera for a family reunion this time in the wintry idyll of the Tyrolean Alps.
THE NICKNAME opens in cinemas on December 19, 2024.
Here’s a little foretaste: https://youtu.be/cBeeMG3pGkU
Content: Anna (Janina Uhse) and Thomas (Florian David Fitz) want to get married and have invited the family to the Tyrolean Alps. In a typically bad mood, Stephan (Christoph Maria Herbst) ponders the current lives of the Böttchers, Wittmanns, Bergers and Königs in the ski lift: Anna has surprisingly made a career as an actress after all, Thomas is about to be promoted to the board of a real estate company – assuming , he passes the mandatory sensitivity training. Stephan’s wife Elisabeth (Caroline Peters) still works as a teacher, but secretly supplements the household budget with Bitcoin trading. And René (Justus von Dohnányi), married to Dorothea (Iris Berben) and the parents of twins for three years, turns out to be an overprotective helicopter father. Stephan himself was recently fired from the university as a professor; there was an incident. And with Cajus (Jona Volkmann), 18, and Antigone (Kya-Celina Barucki), 17, Stephan and Elisabeth’s youthful, woke offspring bring additional chaos to the hoped-for winter idyll. In the end, it’s not just the planned wedding that is in jeopardy…
THE NICKNAME is a Constantin Film production in co-production with epo-film. Producers are Tom Spieß and Christoph Müller with Jakob Pochlatko as co-producer, executive producers are Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben. The film was directed by Sönke Wortmann and written by Claudius Pläging. THE NICKNAME was funded by the German Film Fund (DFFF), Filmförderanstalt (FFA), Film FernsehenFonds Bayern (FFF), Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, ÖFI+ and Cine Tirol.
Cinema release: December 19, 2024, distributed by Constantin Film
Performers: Iris Berben, Christoph Maria Herbst, Florian David Fitz, Caroline Peters, Justus von Dohnányi, Janina Uhse, Kya-Celina Barucki, Jona Volkmann
Producers: Tom Spieß, Christoph Müller
Co-Producer: Jakob Pochlatko
Executive Producer: Martin Moszkowicz, Oliver Berben
Script: Claudius Pläging
Director: Sönke Wortmann
The first press material is below https://presse.constantin.film available for download.