''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. 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.

Cast

as Evi Müller-Todt * Oliver Masucci as Claus Müller-Todt *

Samuel Finzi Samuel Finzi ( 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 received ten acting a ...

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-time ...

as Svetlana *

Yasin El Harrouk Yasin El Harrouk, known artistically as YONII, is a German actor and rapper of Moroccan origin. He sings in both German and Moroccan Arabic. Biography Yasin El Harouk was born in 1991 in Germany to a family of Moroccan guest workers from Berkan ...

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 some in ...

* 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 Thor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main on 2 September 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug friends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany. In 1981, on a scholarship to the United S ...

. It is produced by Molina Film and co-produced by

Tele München Gruppe Leonine Holding GmbH, LLC, formerly Tele München Group, LLC (German: Tele München Gruppe; TMG), is a media company based in Munich. The activities of Leonine include trade in licenses, investments in television and radio stations and distributio ...

. 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 ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

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 {{2010s-Germany-film-stub