Die Schimmelreiter

May 21, 2009

1h 40m

★ 6.0

Overview

In today’s Friesland, Fuchs, a food inspector in the district, is always in a good mood and committed to investigating North German snack bars. He dreams of a career in Hamburg, for which he works hard. But his superior at the public order office, Sigmar Koch, asks Fuchs to do him a special favor: he has to accommodate his brother Tillmann, a bad-tempered drunk.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Neue Mira Filmproduktion

Die Schimmelreiter Trailers

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Cast

Fuchs

Peter Jordan

Tilmann Koch

Axel Prahl

Sigmar Koch

Bjarne Mädel

Beate

Katharina Wackernagel

Erna Fuchs

Petra Kelling

Winfried Koch

Peter Striebeck

Isabel, genannt Easy

Katrin Pollitt

Panaiotis

Adam Bousdoukos

Walter Döring

Uwe Rohde

Banckebinck Sen.

Rainer Luxem

Hinne Heino Göbkens

Jan Peter Heyne

Massimo

Rudy Ruggiero

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