Julius Armbrust is in his mid-30s, he’s a packaging designer, married with two children and has everything he could wish for: money, success, his family, his affairs. On his 12th wedding anniversary, he finds out that his wife Paula has a lover: Stefan. Julius’ world falls apart. He pretends to go away to a conference, but in fact remains in town and does not let Paula and Stefan out of his sight. Stefan throws his old girlfriend out of the flat.

Julius has a plan. He applies for the vacant room, and Stefan, not knowing who this strange guy in the expensive suit really is, agrees to share his flat with him. Julius is determined to get to know Stefan and his exotic surroundings. When Stefan admits to him in a drunken stupor that perhaps he would not mind having money and a career and power after all, Julius knows what he has to do: Stefan becomes more and more of what Julius once was. Paula loses interest in this “new” Stefan, who is suddenly so strangely like her own husband. Julius returns home as the winner. Or maybe not?

Cast

Julius
Heiner Lauterbach
Stefan
Uwe Ochsenknecht
Paula
Ulrike Kriener
Angelika
Janna Marangosoff
Marita Strass
Marie-charlott Schüler
Lothar
Dietmar Bär
Frau Lennert
Edith Volkmann
Männer - Poster 1

Men

Doris Dörrie

  • Fiction
Production Country / Year
Language
de. OF ohne UT
Format
DCP, Color, 99min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1
Original Title
Männer

Director & Crew

Doris Dörrie

Born in Hannover in 1955. Studied Drama, psychology and semiotics in the United States, later student at the Munich HFF. Professor at the HFF, film and opera director, writer.

Filmography

1978              DER ERSTE WALZER, Spielfilm  HOF 1978

1980              KATHARINA EISELT, Dokumentarfilm

1981              VON ROMANTIK KEINE SPUR, Dokumentarfilm

                        DAZWISCHEN, Fernsehspiel  HOF 1978

1983              MITTEN INS HERZ, Spielfilm  HOF 1983 und 2006

1984              IM INNEREN DES WALS, Spielfilm

1985              MÄNNER, Spielfilm  HOF 1985 und 2016

1986              PARADIES, Spielfilm  HOF 1986

1988              ME AND HIM/ICH UND ER, Spielfilm

1989              GELD, Spielfilm

1991              HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TÜRKE! Spielfilm  HOF 1991

1994              KEINER LIEBT MICH, Spielfilm

1998              BIN ICH SCHÖN, Spielfilm

1999 ´           ERLEUCHTUNG GARANTIERT, Spielfilm  HOF 1999

2002              NACKT, Spielfilm

2005              DER FISCHER UND SEINE FRAU, Spielfilm

2006              HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE, Dokumentation

2008              Kirschblüten – Hanami, Spielfilm

2010              Die Friseuse, Spielfilm 

2012              GLÜCK, Spielfilm                

2014              ALLES INKLUSIVE, Spielfilm 

                        DIESES SCHÖNE SCHEISSLEBEN, Dokumentarfilm

2016              GRÜSSE AUS FUKUSHIMA, Spielfilm

2019 KIRSCHBLÜTEN & DÄMONEN

DER CLUB DER SINGENDEN METZGER

Writer
Doris Dörrie
Director of Photography
Helge Weindler
Editor
Raimund Barthelmes
Production Designer
Jörg Neumann
Costume Designer
Jörg Trees
Sound
Michael Etz
Music Composer
Claus Bantzer
Make-up
Werner Albert Püthe
Producer
Elvira Senft
Helmut Rasp
Denyse Noever