Your Happiness Depends on Me

Jun 1, 2006

1h 35m

★ 6.0

Overview

When the hard-working bread-winner Katja and Hendrik the intellectual meet Saida, an illegal immigrant from Algeria, and accept to organize a "passport marriage" between her and Hendrik, they are caught up in a chain of events and feelings over which they have no control.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

novapool production

HFF Konrad Wolf

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Cast

Katja

Carina Wiese

Hendrik

Axel Schrick

Saïda

Saïda Jawad

Katjas Vater

Victor Choulman

John

Daniel Stock

Tinka

Ursina Lardi

Polizist

Samir Osman

Ahmed

Konstantin Achmed Bürger

Max

Torsten Lensing

Arztkollege

Ennio Cacciato

Standesbeamtin

Anna Stieblich

Anmachertyp

Abel Lindner

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