As 2021 draws to a close, the film aficionados who make up Deadline’s International Critics Line crew have each chosen their top three titles of the year to hail from abroad. Some were world premieres at Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice or Toronto, though not all are on the Oscar International Feature shortlist, nor are they each in a foreign language It’s also interesting to see some overlap, with a trio of films showing up more than once.
Here are Deadline critics’ top international films of 2021 (in alphabetical order by title):
Drive My Car
Since its premiere in Cannes, where it won writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi the screenwriting prize, to its recent honors as Best Film from critics groups in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and more, the Japanese-shortlisted entry for the Best International Film Oscar has become perhaps the one to beat at the Academy Awards. With a three-hour running time,...
Here are Deadline critics’ top international films of 2021 (in alphabetical order by title):
Drive My Car
Since its premiere in Cannes, where it won writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi the screenwriting prize, to its recent honors as Best Film from critics groups in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and more, the Japanese-shortlisted entry for the Best International Film Oscar has become perhaps the one to beat at the Academy Awards. With a three-hour running time,...
- 12/30/2021
- by Pete Hammond, Todd McCarthy, Valerie Complex, Anna Smith and Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Back in 1964, CBS premiered the sci-fi rom com “My Living Doll” in which a bachelor psychiatrist (Bob Cummings) is asked to take care of a beautiful prototype android (Julie Newmar) because her creator doesn’t want the robot to fall in the hands of the Army. The shrink decides to teach his stunning but naïve charge how to be the perfect woman: a pre-women’s lib female does what she is told and never talks back to him. That premise wouldn’t fly these days especially in the wake of the #MeToo era. Even then the series only lasted one season. The tables are turned in the sophisticated, thought-provoking rom-com “I’m Your Man,” Germany’s official entry for Best International Feature at the Oscars.
Directed by Maria Schrader and starring Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens, “I’m Your Man” revolves around a bright young woman, unlucky in love and working at a financially strapped museum,...
Directed by Maria Schrader and starring Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens, “I’m Your Man” revolves around a bright young woman, unlucky in love and working at a financially strapped museum,...
- 12/17/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
The story of I’m Your Man, Germany’s submission to the International Feature Oscar race, is rife with humanity — even if one of the central characters is a humanoid robot. Inspired by a short story from Emma Braslavsky, the premise sparked for both director Maria Schrader and co-star Dan Stevens, as they told us during a Bleecker Street panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season event.
I’m Your Man, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and took the Lead Performance prize for Maren Eggert, centers on her Alma, an anthropologist who agrees to live with a humanoid robot for three weeks as part of a trial testing period. Stevens’ Thomas has been designed as Alma’s ideal partner, using algorithms based on her brain scans, her responses and research involving 17 million people.
Thomas, as manufactured as he may be, has other gifts, notably helping Alma discover a different life.
I’m Your Man, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and took the Lead Performance prize for Maren Eggert, centers on her Alma, an anthropologist who agrees to live with a humanoid robot for three weeks as part of a trial testing period. Stevens’ Thomas has been designed as Alma’s ideal partner, using algorithms based on her brain scans, her responses and research involving 17 million people.
Thomas, as manufactured as he may be, has other gifts, notably helping Alma discover a different life.
- 11/20/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
I’m Your Man, a sci-fi rom-com from director Maria Schrader, featuring Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens as a German-speaking romance robot, has won the Lola in Gold for best film at the 2021 German Film Prize, Germany’s top film awards.
Schrader, fresh off her Emmy win (for best directing for a limited series in Netflix’s Unorthodox), picked up the best director Lola for I’m Your Man. Schrader and co-screenwriter Jan Schomburg took the best screenplay honor for their I’m Your Man script, an adaptation of a short story by German writer Emma Braslavsky. Maren Eggert, who plays the robot’s no-nonsense human love ...
Schrader, fresh off her Emmy win (for best directing for a limited series in Netflix’s Unorthodox), picked up the best director Lola for I’m Your Man. Schrader and co-screenwriter Jan Schomburg took the best screenplay honor for their I’m Your Man script, an adaptation of a short story by German writer Emma Braslavsky. Maren Eggert, who plays the robot’s no-nonsense human love ...
- 10/1/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
I’m Your Man, a sci-fi rom-com from director Maria Schrader, featuring Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens as a German-speaking romance robot, has won the Lola in Gold for best film at the 2021 German Film Prize, Germany’s top film awards.
Schrader, fresh off her Emmy win (for best directing for a limited series in Netflix’s Unorthodox), picked up the best director Lola for I’m Your Man. Schrader and co-screenwriter Jan Schomburg took the best screenplay honor for their I’m Your Man script, an adaptation of a short story by German writer Emma Braslavsky. Maren Eggert, who plays the robot’s no-nonsense human love ...
Schrader, fresh off her Emmy win (for best directing for a limited series in Netflix’s Unorthodox), picked up the best director Lola for I’m Your Man. Schrader and co-screenwriter Jan Schomburg took the best screenplay honor for their I’m Your Man script, an adaptation of a short story by German writer Emma Braslavsky. Maren Eggert, who plays the robot’s no-nonsense human love ...
- 10/1/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dan Stevens as Tom and Maren Eggert as Alma, in German director Maria Schrader’s sci-fi I’M Your Man (Ich Bin Dein Mensch). Courtesy of Obscured Pictures and Bleecker Street
Would you fall in love with an android specially designed to please you? Would that be a good thing? That is the premise behind director Maria Schrader’s German sci-fi tale I’M Your Man (Ich Bin Dein Mensch) starring Dan Stevens and Maren Eggert. I’M Your Man starts out like a romantic comedy, but takes a deeper, more thoughtful, and thought-provoking turn in this excellent German language film. Of course, people falling in love with robots has a long literary history, going back to Pygmalion, and human-made men tales go back to the Golem and Frankenstein, was well as being a familiar science fiction theme. But Schrader, whose previous work includes the Netflix series “Unorthodox,” puts a new spin on...
Would you fall in love with an android specially designed to please you? Would that be a good thing? That is the premise behind director Maria Schrader’s German sci-fi tale I’M Your Man (Ich Bin Dein Mensch) starring Dan Stevens and Maren Eggert. I’M Your Man starts out like a romantic comedy, but takes a deeper, more thoughtful, and thought-provoking turn in this excellent German language film. Of course, people falling in love with robots has a long literary history, going back to Pygmalion, and human-made men tales go back to the Golem and Frankenstein, was well as being a familiar science fiction theme. But Schrader, whose previous work includes the Netflix series “Unorthodox,” puts a new spin on...
- 10/1/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Maren Eggert won Berlin’s Silver Bear for her performance in Maria Schrader’s romantic comedy.
Curzon has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Maria Schrader’s romantic comedy I’m Your Man and Daniel Brühl’s dark comedy Next Door in a brace of deals with Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema.
Both German features received their world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in March, where Maren Eggert won the Berlinale’s first gender-neutral Silver Bear acting prize for her leading performance in I’m Your Man.
Curzon will release I’m Your Man, which also stars Dan Stevens,...
Curzon has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Maria Schrader’s romantic comedy I’m Your Man and Daniel Brühl’s dark comedy Next Door in a brace of deals with Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema.
Both German features received their world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in March, where Maren Eggert won the Berlinale’s first gender-neutral Silver Bear acting prize for her leading performance in I’m Your Man.
Curzon will release I’m Your Man, which also stars Dan Stevens,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. rights to Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man after the film picked up a Silver Bear for Maren Eggert’s lead performance at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.
Eggert stars alongside Dan Stevens in the German-language movie. Story follows Alma (Eggert), a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom (Stevens), a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.
Bleecker will release the film in cinemas later this year. The deal was brokered between Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy of Bleecker Street with UTA and Beta Cinema’s CEO Dirk Schuerhoff on behalf of the filmmakers.
Eggert stars alongside Dan Stevens in the German-language movie. Story follows Alma (Eggert), a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom (Stevens), a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.
Bleecker will release the film in cinemas later this year. The deal was brokered between Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy of Bleecker Street with UTA and Beta Cinema’s CEO Dirk Schuerhoff on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 3/18/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Bleecker Street has acquired the U.S. rights to Maria Schrader’s “I’m Your Man,” which stars Dan Stevens and Maren Eggert.
The film won the Silver Bear at the 2021 Berlinale for Eggert’s leading performance, and will be released in theaters later this year with a VOD release to follow.
“I’m Your Man” follows Alma (Eggert), a scientist who is coerced into participating in an extraordinary study to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot, who is designed to be the perfect life partner for her.
“Maria has created such a funny and touching story of love and connection that questions what it means to be human,” Andrew Karpen, CEO of Bleecker Street, said. “Maren and Dan are sure to be this year’s most romantic modern couple.”
Schrader added: “I’m delighted that a great company like Bleecker...
The film won the Silver Bear at the 2021 Berlinale for Eggert’s leading performance, and will be released in theaters later this year with a VOD release to follow.
“I’m Your Man” follows Alma (Eggert), a scientist who is coerced into participating in an extraordinary study to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot, who is designed to be the perfect life partner for her.
“Maria has created such a funny and touching story of love and connection that questions what it means to be human,” Andrew Karpen, CEO of Bleecker Street, said. “Maren and Dan are sure to be this year’s most romantic modern couple.”
Schrader added: “I’m delighted that a great company like Bleecker...
- 3/18/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. rights to Maria Schrader’s “I’m Your Man,” which won the Berlinale’s Silver Bear for leading performance for Maren Eggert. The film, which also stars Dan Stevens, will be released in theaters later this year with a VOD release to follow.
In the film, Eggert plays Alma, a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom (Stevens), a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.
“Maria has created such a funny and touching story of love and connection that one questions what it means to be human,” said Andrew Karpen, CEO of Bleecker Street.
In the film, Eggert plays Alma, a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom (Stevens), a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.
“Maria has created such a funny and touching story of love and connection that one questions what it means to be human,” said Andrew Karpen, CEO of Bleecker Street.
- 3/18/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The German comic romance took the best actor Silver Bear at Berlin.
In what is its first acquisition of foreign- language film, Bleecker Street has secured US rights to Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man, the German romantic comedy that won Maren Eggert the best actor Silver Bear at last month’s Berlin festival.
Bleecker plans to release the film in cinemas later this year, with a VoD release to follow.
Written by Jan Schomburg and Schrader and inspired by an Emma Braslavsky short story, the film was produced by Lisa Blumenberg and executive produced by Dan Stevens, who also stars,...
In what is its first acquisition of foreign- language film, Bleecker Street has secured US rights to Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man, the German romantic comedy that won Maren Eggert the best actor Silver Bear at last month’s Berlin festival.
Bleecker plans to release the film in cinemas later this year, with a VoD release to follow.
Written by Jan Schomburg and Schrader and inspired by an Emma Braslavsky short story, the film was produced by Lisa Blumenberg and executive produced by Dan Stevens, who also stars,...
- 3/18/2021
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Other titles on the Beta EFM slate have also been doing brisk business
Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema has reported multiple deals on its Berlin EFM slate, including brisk sales on its two Berlinale competition titles, Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man and Daniel Brühl’s Next Door.
I’m Your Man, whose star Maren Eggert won Berlin’s first gender-neutral Silver Bear acting prize for best leading performance last week, has gone to France (Haut et Court), Italy (Koch Media), Spain, Portugal and Latin America (Sun Distribution), Scandinavia (Edge Entertainment), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Cis and Baltics (Volgafilm), Poland (Monolith), Hungary (Cirko Film...
Munich-based sales agent Beta Cinema has reported multiple deals on its Berlin EFM slate, including brisk sales on its two Berlinale competition titles, Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man and Daniel Brühl’s Next Door.
I’m Your Man, whose star Maren Eggert won Berlin’s first gender-neutral Silver Bear acting prize for best leading performance last week, has gone to France (Haut et Court), Italy (Koch Media), Spain, Portugal and Latin America (Sun Distribution), Scandinavia (Edge Entertainment), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Cis and Baltics (Volgafilm), Poland (Monolith), Hungary (Cirko Film...
- 3/11/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Falling in love with a robot isn’t good news, as Her and Blade Runner (both 2019 and 2049) tell us. In I’m Your Man, unspooling in competition at Berlin, a forty-something museum director (Maren Eggert) is justifiably nervous—she’s in a film named after a Leonard Cohen track, which is only asking for trouble—when asked to try out a new romantic partner. That’s because this is a “humanoid robot,” Tom, algorithmically aligned to her romantic preferences and played by dashing English actor Dan Stevens in a performance in which he impressively speaks fluent German.
But director Maria Schrader’s film, based on a short story by Emma Braslavsky, is less sci-fi-inclined than you might expect, concerned not so much with an apocalypse for human connections but with what our relationship with technology teach about us.
Eggert plays Alma, a researcher in ancient poetry (what could be more human?...
But director Maria Schrader’s film, based on a short story by Emma Braslavsky, is less sci-fi-inclined than you might expect, concerned not so much with an apocalypse for human connections but with what our relationship with technology teach about us.
Eggert plays Alma, a researcher in ancient poetry (what could be more human?...
- 3/3/2021
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
With a strong showing at this year’s Berlin Film Festival that includes the directorial debut of Daniel Brühl and new works by Maria Schrader and Dominik Graf in competition, German films are set to garner much of the spotlight at the accompanying European Film Market.
Brühl, who is set to reprise his role as the vengeful Helmut Zemo in the upcoming Marvel series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” explores the contradictions of present-day Berlin in “Next Door.” The seemingly self-referential story has Brühl playing Daniel, a successful actor living in the city’s Prenzlauer Berg district, who is about to jet off to audition for a role in a superhero movie. His life suddenly changes when he is confronted by a disgruntled neighbor, played by Peter Kurth (“Babylon Berlin”), a victim of gentrification in former East Berlin and one of the many losers of German reunification.
Written by bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann,...
Brühl, who is set to reprise his role as the vengeful Helmut Zemo in the upcoming Marvel series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” explores the contradictions of present-day Berlin in “Next Door.” The seemingly self-referential story has Brühl playing Daniel, a successful actor living in the city’s Prenzlauer Berg district, who is about to jet off to audition for a role in a superhero movie. His life suddenly changes when he is confronted by a disgruntled neighbor, played by Peter Kurth (“Babylon Berlin”), a victim of gentrification in former East Berlin and one of the many losers of German reunification.
Written by bestselling author Daniel Kehlmann,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Where Ira Levin’s “The Stepford Wives” ends is where a truly fascinating domestic drama should begin. Have you never wondered if the misogynistic menfolk of Stepford, Conn., having finally realized their collective dream of flawless, submissive android wives with cleavage and housekeeping skills to die for, ever tire of the dull perfection they’ve designed? Life lived without friction and unpredictability isn’t much of a life at all; surely it’s only a matter of time before restless human desire sabotages the idyll. German filmmaker Maria Schrader has, one suspects, given the matter some thought, though her cool, grown-up romantic fantasy “I’m Your Man” twists the scenario’s gender politics and significantly changes the stakes — presenting an independent, idiosyncratic female protagonist with a robot man so perfectly tailored to her needs that she just can’t stand it.
The appealingly peculiar result lands somewhere between “Ex Machina” and...
The appealingly peculiar result lands somewhere between “Ex Machina” and...
- 3/1/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The concept of human-robot love has provided fertile ground for sci-fi storytelling, from Data in “Star Trek” to the disembodied voice of “Her” all the way through “Ex Machina” and “Wandavision,” because it presents an obvious paradox: No amount of engineering genius, it seems, can design the perfect mate. “I’m Your Man,” the , inverts that formula: A machine may provide the ideal companion, but that very question for perfection is part of the problem.
Actor-turned-director Schrader, who last handled Netflix’s breakout miniseries hit “Unorthodox,” has once again made a movie about one woman learning to come to terms with her greater potential. In that respect, “I’m Your Man” is only sci-fi in the flimsiest sense, and seems less invested in epistemological questions than the way they speak to its protagonist’s soul-searching malaise. Alma (Maren Egert) is an established scientist at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum working on a complex...
Actor-turned-director Schrader, who last handled Netflix’s breakout miniseries hit “Unorthodox,” has once again made a movie about one woman learning to come to terms with her greater potential. In that respect, “I’m Your Man” is only sci-fi in the flimsiest sense, and seems less invested in epistemological questions than the way they speak to its protagonist’s soul-searching malaise. Alma (Maren Egert) is an established scientist at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum working on a complex...
- 3/1/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The Pygmalion myth gets a gender flip in I’m Your Man, the Berlin Film Festival competition entry from Germany’s Maria Schrader. Maren Eggert stars as Alma, a single anthropologist who agrees to live with a humanoid robot for three weeks as part of a trial testing period. Thomas (Dan Stevens) has been designed as Alma’s ideal partner, using algorithms based on her brain scans, her responses and research involving 17 million people.
Polite, charming and well dressed, Thomas appears human, save for the occasional cock-headed mechanical smile. Then there’s also his habit of spouting detailed statistics, something he learns to curb as Alma crossly puts him straight about her real preferences — or at least, what she thinks they are. “Maybe they know you better than yourself,” chuckles Alma’s colleague, as she complains about Tom’s chat-up lines. When the odd couple begins to cohabit, the robot is...
Polite, charming and well dressed, Thomas appears human, save for the occasional cock-headed mechanical smile. Then there’s also his habit of spouting detailed statistics, something he learns to curb as Alma crossly puts him straight about her real preferences — or at least, what she thinks they are. “Maybe they know you better than yourself,” chuckles Alma’s colleague, as she complains about Tom’s chat-up lines. When the odd couple begins to cohabit, the robot is...
- 3/1/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
The German actress/filmmaker discusses her latest feature starring Dan Stevens as a “partnership robot”.
A mix of “humour and bewilderment” drew German filmmaker Maria Schrader to make I’m Your Man, which will play in Competition at the virtual Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
“I was drawn to it by the simplicity of the set-up,” says Schrader, who tackled more serious subject matter last year in Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, which won her an Emmy for directing. “It’s like a boy meets girl thing. But it’s actually girl meets boy and it’s a robot boy.”
The romantic comedy,...
A mix of “humour and bewilderment” drew German filmmaker Maria Schrader to make I’m Your Man, which will play in Competition at the virtual Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
“I was drawn to it by the simplicity of the set-up,” says Schrader, who tackled more serious subject matter last year in Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, which won her an Emmy for directing. “It’s like a boy meets girl thing. But it’s actually girl meets boy and it’s a robot boy.”
The romantic comedy,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The logline “man meets robot” evokes a litany of famous android romances — “Her,” “Stepford Wives” and “Bladerunner” among them — but, curiously, there are nowhere near enough featuring male robots. The Dan Stevens-fronted “I’m Your Man” (Ich bin dein Mensch) ably rights the balance while posing philosophical questions in a witty, modern rom-com.
The Berlin Film Festival competition entry, directed by Maria Schrader, turns on cynical anthropologist Alma (Maren Eggert) who, in order to raise funds for her research, agrees to a three-week study trial with a humanoid robot named Tom (Dan Stevens), who is designed to fulfil her every need.
The Letterbox Filmproduktion-made film, which is being shopped internationally by Beta Cinema, was shot after the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, from August through September. Schrader — a major acting talent in Germany who’s now familiar to international audiences as Lenora Rauch in the recently ended “Deutschland” series,...
The Berlin Film Festival competition entry, directed by Maria Schrader, turns on cynical anthropologist Alma (Maren Eggert) who, in order to raise funds for her research, agrees to a three-week study trial with a humanoid robot named Tom (Dan Stevens), who is designed to fulfil her every need.
The Letterbox Filmproduktion-made film, which is being shopped internationally by Beta Cinema, was shot after the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, from August through September. Schrader — a major acting talent in Germany who’s now familiar to international audiences as Lenora Rauch in the recently ended “Deutschland” series,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The German company boasts two entries in the main competition of the Berlin International Film Festival, while a handful of titles will be featured at the EFM. World sales agent Beta Cinema is heading to this year’s selection of the Berlin International Film Festival and to the accompanying European Film Market brandishing two Golden Bear contenders, while three more of its titles are featured in Market Screenings and the company will also be negotiating deals for six promising upcoming features at the EFM. In particular, the company is pinning its hopes on I’m Your Man by German writer-director Maria Schrader, winner of the Primetime Emmy Award for Unorthodox, which is part of the main competition of the 71st Berlinale. Scripted by Schrader and Jan Schomburg, and based on a short story by Emma Braslavsky, the tragicomic tale focuses on Alma (Maren Eggert), a scientist working at the...
‘Next Door’ is directed by Daniel Brühl and Dan Stevens stars in ‘In Your Man’.
World sales agent Beta Cinema has swooped on international rights to Daniel Brühl’s directorial debut Next Door and Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man, which will both premiere in Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
The Munich-based outfit will introduce the features to buyers at the European Film Market (EFM), which will run alongside this year’s industry-focused, online-only event.
Next Door marks the directing debut of Brühl, who also stars in the black comedy alongside Peter Kurth and Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps.
World sales agent Beta Cinema has swooped on international rights to Daniel Brühl’s directorial debut Next Door and Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man, which will both premiere in Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).
The Munich-based outfit will introduce the features to buyers at the European Film Market (EFM), which will run alongside this year’s industry-focused, online-only event.
Next Door marks the directing debut of Brühl, who also stars in the black comedy alongside Peter Kurth and Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps.
- 2/15/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The romantic comedy, starring Maren Eggert and Dan Stevens, will focus on the relationship between a woman and a humanoid robot. German actress-screenwriter-director Maria Schrader, whose 2020 Netflix miniseries Unorthodox earned her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series this year, is currently working on her next directorial effort, a television production. The romantic comedy I’m Your Man, scripted by Schrader and Jan Schomburg, and based on a short story by Emma Braslavsky, will focus on Alma, a scientist working at the prestigious Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The need to fund her own research makes her determined to take part in an unusual study: she agrees to live with a robot with a humanoid appearance, who is programmed to be suitable for her character and needs. Maren Eggert, known for playing the lead in Angela Schanelec’s Marseille, will star as Alma, alongside British actor Dan Stevens.
- 10/28/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Exclusive: After the critical success of Netflix’s Unorthodox, series director Maria Schrader is teaming with Dan Stevens on Ich bin dein Mensch (I Am Your Man). The film, which recently wrapped production in Berlin and Denmark under strict conditions adapted in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, was shot entirely in German.
Stevens has spoken German most of his life and had previously used it for the 2008 film Hilde.
I Am Your Man tells a love story in the near future and is a comic-tragic tale about the questions of love, longing and what makes a human being human. Maren Eggert plays a scientist who is confronted with a “partnership robot” against her will. Stevens voices the robot. The cast also includes Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Wolfgang Hübsch, Annika Meier, Falilou Seck and Jürgen Tarrach.
Besides directing, Schrader also co-wrote the script with Jan Schombourg. It is based on...
Stevens has spoken German most of his life and had previously used it for the 2008 film Hilde.
I Am Your Man tells a love story in the near future and is a comic-tragic tale about the questions of love, longing and what makes a human being human. Maren Eggert plays a scientist who is confronted with a “partnership robot” against her will. Stevens voices the robot. The cast also includes Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Wolfgang Hübsch, Annika Meier, Falilou Seck and Jürgen Tarrach.
Besides directing, Schrader also co-wrote the script with Jan Schombourg. It is based on...
- 9/9/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
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