''Herrliche Zeiten'' is a 2018 German comedy-drama film directed by

Oskar Roehler Oskar Roehler (born 21 January 1959) is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg, the son of writers Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s, he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among ot ...

, starring

Katja Riemann Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann (, born 1 November 1963) is a German actress. The daughter of two teachers, Riemann grew up in Weyhe, near Bremen. After high school she went to Hamburg to study music and theater. She is the mother of actress Paula ...

and

Oliver Masucci Oliver Masucci (born 6 December 1968) is a German actor. He is best known internationally for the role of Adolf Hitler in the 2015 film adaptation of the satirical novel ''Look Who's Back'', Ulrich Nielsen in the Netflix series ''Dark,'' and An ...

. It tells the story of an affluent couple looking for a new housekeeper. As a joke, they write in the ad that they are looking for "slaves", which has unexpected consequences. The film is based on the novel '' Subs'' by Thor Kunkel.

Cast

as Evi Müller-Todt *

as Claus Müller-Todt *

Samuel Finzi Samuel Finzi (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: Самуел Финци; born 20 January 1966) is a Bulgarian-German actor. Since his start in the late 1980s, he has hundreds of film, television, and theatrical credits. Between 1993 and 2011, he rec ...

as Bartos *

Lize Feryn Lize Feryn (born 4 March 1993) is a Belgian actress, model and author of Flemish descent. Biography Lize Feryn earned a degree in artistic secondary education in 2011 in Drama & Diction at the Leuven Lemmens Institute. She also had a part-tim ...

as Svetlana * Yasin El Harrouk *

Andrea Sawatzki Andrea Sawatzki (; born 23 February 1963) is a German actress. From 2002 to 2010 she starred in the Hessischer Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series ''Tatort'' as police inspector Charlotte Sänger. She also gained internationa ...

* Lena Schmidke * Ilgar Khanikov * Sara Fazilat * Gottfried Vollmer * Katy Karrenbauer * Aslan Aslan as Tarek * Ivan Jurcevic as Bodyguard

Production

The film is based on the 2011 novel '' Subs'' written by Thor Kunkel. It is produced by Molina Film and co-produced by Tele München Gruppe. It received support from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, DFFF, BKM and Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg. Filming took place from 8 May to 20 June 2017 in and around

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

Release

The film was released in German cinemas on 3 May 2018.

References

External links

* 2018 films Films based on German novels Films directed by Oskar Roehler Films scored by Martin Todsharow Films shot in Cologne German comedy-drama films 2010s German-language films 2010s German films 2018 comedy-drama films German-language comedy-drama films {{2010s-Germany-film-stub