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Les nouveaux mecs

Original title: Der bewegte Mann
  • 1994
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
6.6K
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Les nouveaux mecs (1994)
Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.
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Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.

  • Director
    • Sönke Wortmann
  • Writers
    • Sönke Wortmann
    • Ralf König
  • Stars
    • Til Schweiger
    • Katja Riemann
    • Joachim Król
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    • Director
      • Sönke Wortmann
    • Writers
      • Sönke Wortmann
      • Ralf König
    • Stars
      • Til Schweiger
      • Katja Riemann
      • Joachim Król
    • 20User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Til Schweiger
    Til Schweiger
    • Axel Feldheim
    Katja Riemann
    Katja Riemann
    • Doro Feldheim
    Joachim Król
    Joachim Król
    • Norbert Brommer
    Rufus Beck
    Rufus Beck
    • Waltraud
    Armin Rohde
    Armin Rohde
    • Metzger
    Nico van der Knaap
    • Fränzchen
    Antonia Lang
    • Elke Schmitt
    Martina Gedeck
    Martina Gedeck
    • Jutta
    Judith Reinartz
    • Claudia
    Kai Wiesinger
    Kai Wiesinger
    • Aufreißer
    Horst D. Scheel
    • Günter
    Christof Wackernagel
    • Rüdiger
    Martin Armknecht
    • Lutz
    Heinrich Schafmeister
    Heinrich Schafmeister
    • Klaus Dieter
    Helmut Buchel
    • Dirk
    • (as Helmut Büchel)
    Monty Arnold
    • Monty
    Hans Peter Reutter
    • Dr. Bertie
    Heinz Baumeister
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    • Director
      • Sönke Wortmann
    • Writers
      • Sönke Wortmann
      • Ralf König
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    8gforth

    Laugh out loud? I did indeed.

    I saw this film in Germany when it came out as I was living there at the time. It was one of the funniest films I ever saw. Some years later I got a subtitled copy back in England and was shocked at how unfunny it was when translated. Which goes to show that humour often only works in the language it was created in.

    That said, it is still a very unstylised view of culture clashes and a study of how far people are prepared to go when they aren't getting any sex. No one gets what they want by the end: the gay man doesn't get his straight friend; the straight man doesn't get his free-love lifestyle; the straight woman doesn't get her angry singledom.

    I guess the moral is that you can take the human out of their sexuality, but you can't take the sexuality out of the human. Trite, but it reflects the title of the film, referring to a proverbial fish out of water.
    finkster-1

    Bull Power--HILARIOUS!

    I saw this movie a few months ago with my German class, and we were rolling on the floors. At first American audiences might be a little "on edge" when they hear about what the guy does, where he stays, and that he has no idea about the people he is staying with in the beginning. But after getting into it, you see that what he goes through is just so funny, and you can't believe that he didn't see it coming. Plus, the Bull Power is all the more reason to go see, or rent, the movie. I mean I can't believe that they didn't come up with this type of stuff in the U.S. I know a lot of people who would go out and buy it right now if they had the chance. My friends and I now have a fun time talking/joking with our teacher about the movie, and we randomly bring Red Bull energy drinks to class, just to make him laugh. It's a great movie, and everyone should see it. I loved it.
    mooncaine-1

    Maybe funnier if you're German, or both German and gay?

    I thought it was fine. Not exactly deep stuff, but entertaining. Everything must be taken in context, if possible, and this was based on a popular comic strip by Ralf Koenig -- I'm guessing he's gay, based on other stuff I've seen of his, so whether his work perpetuates stereotypes or is the honest humor of a member of the gay community is not so easy to say. Not for me, anyway. I found Germany in the mid-1990s to be more tolerant of homosexuals than my hometown in Amerika, but a lot has changed in the intervening years. Anyway, political incorrectness aside, I think of this as a light comedy about relationships, like another Soenke Wortmann films I've seen [Stadtgespraech]. For students of the German language, it was a wonderful opportunity to catch some slang and modern, conversational German that we don't see in deep, intellectual films based on historical or literary sources.
    MattN-2

    German comedy is not an oxymoron!

    Based on the work of Ralf König -- the king (no pun intended) of the Teutonic queer comic strip -- Wortmann has made a film about the vicissitudes of coming out. Hand in hand, these two men from the country of "poets and thinkers" dare utter the words: "we are German, we are funny, and we are not ashamed!" In case you missed Wortmann's "Kleine Haie" (1992) -- a road film about three young men coming to grips with their thespianism -- here's proof that comedy is not merely a genre inflicted unilaterally by Hollywood on the rest of the world. Although this film does make concessions in order to be more palatable to its hetero viewership, it is clearly head-and-shoulders above recent Hollywood forays into the queer-exploitation venue such as the abysmal "In&Out" featuring Kevin Kline. After Fassbinder and Wenders it now looks like Germany has a commercially viable director with something worthwhile to say!
    6yawnmower1

    American title: Maybe . . . Maybe Not

    There is only one reason to watch this film: sexy Til Schweiger. He has beauty and magnetism, besides being an extraordinary young actor with subtlety, understated power, and depth. Unfortunately, these qualities are all but lost in this heavy-handed comedy. It is beautifully shot but, considering its comedic intent, rather darkly so. The story and its underlying principles leave much to be desired.

    Handsome Axel (Schweiger) works in a 30's-style supper club, presumably to remind us of the wacky social farces of that period. Any illusions on that score end, however, when he gallantly accompanies an inviting woman into the bathroom for a quickie. His girlfriend Doro, in the next stall, informs him that they're through. Axel is a very pretty boy but, looking for a place to stay, he is rebuffed with varying degrees of vehemence by former girlfriends all too familiar with his womanizing. Alas, Axel's unfortunate coitus interruptus is the inauspicious high point of the movie, with the opening credits barely over.

    Axel is adopted by a group of 'thoughtful' gay men in his hour of need. Norbert, a middle-aged nebbish, gives him a place to stay in hopes that there is a 'maybe'. What ensues is a series of awkward and tasteless gags, mostly involving Axel's discomfort being around gays. Stereotypes abound, and no one comes off particularly well. The straight men are dorky, unattractive, and strangely mortified by the use of common euphemisms for breasts. The gay men are selfish, unattractive, and impossibly flamboyant (in case we miss the point). Doro is shrill, intolerant, and controlling. Axel is shallow, thoughtless, and virtually monosyllabic, but adorable .

    When Axel speaks of 'us normal men' we know where the film stands politically. The gay men appear in female attire much of the time, but speak in caricatured bass voices (in case we miss the point). Axel is deeply offended when cruised by a gay man in a gay disco; especially surprising as he asked the man for a light and directions to the bathroom, while hot, sweaty, and very sexy in a tight muscle shirt. 'Nuff said.

    The plot thickens – and so does the humor – when Doro finds that she is pregnant and decides to get Axel back. She finds him in her own bed with unsightly Norbert, disturbingly naked, in the middle of a very inept seduction. Despite this awkward reunion, Axel and Doro get married. Axel unceremoniously drops Norbert because his wife is 'allergic to gays' .

    The downward spiral continues unabated. Norbert, a strict vegetarian, hooks up with a repellent and humorless butcher, about whom the best one can say is that he has shaved every inch of his gross body. Axel cheats on Doro yet again, with a woman whose animal stimulants put him a coma. We finally hit rock bottom when Doro is bitch-slapped during one last bout of hysteria, and goes into labor. This is funny?

    Til Schweiger is scrumptious eye-candy, and looks stunning throughout the film in tight t-shirts, muscle shirts, open shirts, no shirt. Thank heavens for small mercies. But, in one unfortunate aesthetic choice after another, the odious older men appear in greater states of undress more often than the exquisite young man who makes this peculiar move worth watching.

    The ending has a nice feeling and suggests some reconciliation between Norbert and Axel. It's way too little, too late.

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    • Trivia
      At the time of release, this was the biggest grossing homegrown film at the German box office. It was also the third-highest successful movie that year overall, after Forrest Gump (1994) and Le Roi lion (1994).
    • Quotes

      Doro Feldheim: [after hanged up the phone hearing a male voice] That was a man!

      Jutta: So, in addition she's married.

      Doro Feldheim: [hysterical] That was a homosexual guy!

    • Connections
      Featured in Wa(h)re Liebe: Episode dated 20 October 1994 (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      Ja und nein
      Music by Franz Grothe

      Lyrics by Willy Dehmel

      Performed by Palast Orchester featuring Max Raabe

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    • Release date
      • June 5, 1996 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Maybe... Maybe Not
    • Filming locations
      • Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Constantin Film
      • Olga Film
      • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $468,930
    • Gross worldwide
      • $468,930
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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