After being caught in flagrante by his girlfriend Doro, womanizer Axel needs to find a new place to stay in the middle of the night. Of necessity, he accepts an invitation from Norbert, who is gay, to spend the night at his place. When Doro surprises the two of them in a compromising position, she naturally believes Axel is actually gay or at least bisexual ...
Maybe... Maybe Not
Sönke Wortmann
Born in Marl in 1959. Study of film at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF). Active as a director, producer and screenwriter.
1986 FOTOFINISH, Kurzfilm HOF 1986
1990 EINE WAHNSINNSEHE, Spielfilm
1991 ALLEIN UNTER FRAUEN, Spielfilm
1992 KLEINE HAIE, Spielfilm
1993 MR. BLUESMAN, Spielfilm
1994 Der bewegte Mann, Spielfilm HOF 2021
1996 DAS SUPERWEIB, Spielfilm
1999 ST. PAULI NACHT, Spielfilm
2001 DER HIMMEL VON HOLLYWOOD, Spielfilm
2003 DAS WUNDER VON BERN, Spielfilm
2006 DEUTSCHLAND. EIN SOMMERMÄRCHEN, Dokumentarfilm
2009 DIE PÄPSTIN, Spielfilm
2012 DAS HOCHZEITSVIDEO, Spielfilm
2014 SCHOSSGEBETE, Spielfilm
2015 FRAU MÜLLER MUSS WEG!, Spielfilm
2017 SOMMERFEST, Spielfilm
2018 DER VORNAME, Spielfilm
2019 CONTRA, Spielfilm
“i had noticed sönke wortmann much earlier in a completely different context. namely, as a player for my hometown soccer club sc westfalia herne 04. we met in person for the first time on a student film set in tübingen. i was visiting one of my acting teachers who had taken on a role there, and sönke wortmann was a member of the film crew. our meeting resulted in two engagements under sönke wortmann’s direction. in “die hochzeit des figaro” and in “wahnsinnsehe”. at some point he asked me if i knew ralf könig’s comics. i even knew ralf könig personally. at the beginning of the 80s, he had caused quite a stir with his trashy troupe “the emscher sisters”, among others also in the corner pub VORORT in dortmund, which i ran at that time together with six other crazy people. ralf könig was impressive with a “mireille-mathieu-playback-disaster”. how i was supposed to find myself in ralf’s bulbous-nosed ensemble was a mystery to me. until sönke wortmann explained his plans to me and offered me the role of the homosexual norbert brommer. today, i have to laugh when i think that my first thought back then was: if i play norbert brommer, it’s absolutely necessary to communicate that I’m not gay. 1994. a different time. a casting at the film academy in ludwigsburg as part of a workshop by sönke wortman, but with kai wiesinger as axel feldheim at my side, brought the decision. the material i worked up convinced the producer bernd eichinger - and i had the role. later he told me that i was actually too old for him, but that he was very, very happy to have overlooked it.