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Paul Legert (Michael Brandner) is an educated educated and eloquent bestselling author. His publishing director Silvie Graf (Katharina Müller-Elmau) is already already eagerly awaiting his next work. Unfortunately, this is more than a long time coming and Silvie suggests that he move him a change of location to write in her vacation home in Ibiza, which he immediately immediately refuses. When he leaves the publishing house he meets Magda (Anna Böttcher), Silvie's assistant Silvie's assistant, who holds the new novel his competitor's new novel in front of him. By chance, he discovers that this is his story and wants to confront the thief with it. confront the thief. Unfortunately, he is on the island and Paul has no choice but to get on a plane and put an end to the whole thing. the whole thing. When he arrives on Ibiza, he is greeted by Silvie's extremely headstrong gardener (Tim Wilde) picks him up. As soon as he arrives on the island disturbing factors appear: his only neighbor far and wide far and wide is, of all people, pop star Billy (Robert Stadlober), who spends his creative who spends his creative break a few hundred meters away from Paul parties with friends and devoted groupies groupies every day. At some point, Silvie becomes impatient - so impatient that the annoyed annoyed Paul is finally forced to forced to fake an accident so that he can so that he is no longer annoyed by her annoyed by her insistent calls. Paul's idiosyncrasies and and Paul's constant excuses become too much for Silvie and she decides without further ado to send someone to the island. Hanna's (Claudia Hiersche) A sudden visit throws throws the loner Paul off course. He has pedantically made sure that nobody nobody gets too close to him - Hanna's Hanna's appearance is, so to speak, a blatant a blatant violation of his privacy. Tolerance, patience and diplomacy are foreign foreign words for Paul. Hanna soon wonders how one person can have so much negative energy energy, which makes living together and living together and working together a major challenge. The single mother mother doesn't want to lose her new job at Graf publishing house and tries to encourage tries to encourage him to write. But that's exactly the problem, he's on this island for on this island for a completely different reason - to the search for his rival Tettenbach (Stefan Jürgens), who simply cannot be found. cannot be found. The constant and unpredictable disruptive situations do not make it easy for him easy for him to pursue his plan - time and again circumstances that make him forget more and more more and more forget why he is actually why he is actually there. Slowly togetherness with Hanna, when suddenly suddenly two unexpected guests suddenly appear - who suddenly upset everything again suddenly mix everything up again - and finally proof of what success can do to you. can do to you. Paul realizes that the pursuit of fame and recognition has for the essentials in life. in life. When an accident occurs on the island on the island, he begins to remember his lost values and decides to decides to steer his life in a new direction. in a new direction.

2013 · 1h 25m
Starring Michael Brandner, Claudia Hiersche, Katharina Müller-Elmau
Director Oliver Mielke

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Cast & Crew

  • M‌B
    Michael Brandner
    Paul Legert
  • Claudia Hiersche
    Hanna Weiler
  • K‌M
    Katharina Müller-Elmau
    Silvie Graf
  • Robert Stadlober
    Billy
  • A‌B
    Anna Böttcher
    Magda Stennart
  • Tim Wilde
    Gärtner
  • S‌J
    Stefan Jürgens
    Gustav Tettenbach
  • Manou Lubowski
    Henry
  • Oliver Mielke
    Director
  • Oliver Mielke
    Writer
  • P‌K
    Philip Kaetner
    Writer

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From Top to Bottom

Comedy

Paul Legert (Michael Brandner) is an educated educated and eloquent bestselling author. His publishing director Silvie Graf (Katharina Müller-Elmau) is already already eagerly awaiting his next work. Unfortunately, this is more than a long time coming and Silvie suggests that he move him a change of location to write in her vacation home in Ibiza, which he immediately immediately refuses. When he leaves the publishing house he meets Magda (Anna Böttcher), Silvie's assistant Silvie's assistant, who holds the new novel his competitor's new novel in front of him. By chance, he discovers that this is his story and wants to confront the thief with it. confront the thief. Unfortunately, he is on the island and Paul has no choice but to get on a plane and put an end to the whole thing. the whole thing. When he arrives on Ibiza, he is greeted by Silvie's extremely headstrong gardener (Tim Wilde) picks him up. As soon as he arrives on the island disturbing factors appear: his only neighbor far and wide far and wide is, of all people, pop star Billy (Robert Stadlober), who spends his creative who spends his creative break a few hundred meters away from Paul parties with friends and devoted groupies groupies every day. At some point, Silvie becomes impatient - so impatient that the annoyed annoyed Paul is finally forced to forced to fake an accident so that he can so that he is no longer annoyed by her annoyed by her insistent calls. Paul's idiosyncrasies and and Paul's constant excuses become too much for Silvie and she decides without further ado to send someone to the island. Hanna's (Claudia Hiersche) A sudden visit throws throws the loner Paul off course. He has pedantically made sure that nobody nobody gets too close to him - Hanna's Hanna's appearance is, so to speak, a blatant a blatant violation of his privacy. Tolerance, patience and diplomacy are foreign foreign words for Paul. Hanna soon wonders how one person can have so much negative energy energy, which makes living together and living together and working together a major challenge. The single mother mother doesn't want to lose her new job at Graf publishing house and tries to encourage tries to encourage him to write. But that's exactly the problem, he's on this island for on this island for a completely different reason - to the search for his rival Tettenbach (Stefan Jürgens), who simply cannot be found. cannot be found. The constant and unpredictable disruptive situations do not make it easy for him easy for him to pursue his plan - time and again circumstances that make him forget more and more more and more forget why he is actually why he is actually there. Slowly togetherness with Hanna, when suddenly suddenly two unexpected guests suddenly appear - who suddenly upset everything again suddenly mix everything up again - and finally proof of what success can do to you. can do to you. Paul realizes that the pursuit of fame and recognition has for the essentials in life. in life. When an accident occurs on the island on the island, he begins to remember his lost values and decides to decides to steer his life in a new direction. in a new direction.

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Studio
Entertainment Factory Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH
Released
2013
Run Time
1 hr 25 min
Rated
G
Region of Origin
Germany
© 2016 Entertainment Factory Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH

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German, German (Germany)
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German (Germany) (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC)

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