The Fisherman And His Wife - Why Women Never Get Enough
(festival title)- Der Fischer und seine Frau (more)
Directed by:
Doris DörrieCinematography:
Rainer KlausmannComposer:
Thomas MehlhornCast:
Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian Ulmen, Simon Verhoeven, Young-Shin Kim, Valentin Platareanu, Elmar Wepper, Gustav Peter Wöhler, Christoph Maria Herbst (more)Plots(1)
"For my wife, good Ilsebill, wills not as I'd have her will." Thus the refrain of the famous Grimm's fairytale which inspired Doris Dörrie's new film. Ida, a fashion designer and backpacker travelling through Japan in search of inspiration and ideas, is taken along in a taxi by two Germans, Otto and Leo, who reveal that they are fish merchants. In fact the "Flying Fish Doctors", as they call themselves, are looking for the particularly expensive kind of toy fish called koi for wealthy collectors in Germany. Ida falls in love with the bashful veterinarian Otto and marries him right there in Japan. Back in Germany, Ida is pregnant and the lovebirds soon move from Otto's caravan into a council flat. While Otto is perfectly content with the baby, his koi and the cramped apartment, Ida has ambitions of her own. She designs an extravagant, self-knit scarf collection in koi look and is even able to sell it to Ms Wagenbach's fashion enterprise. To make matters worse, Ida travels with Otto's ex-partner Leo, meanwhile unhappily married, to Japan, where her scarf collection is a huge success. When Otto's plan to sell a very valuable toy fish to factory owner Wagenbach falls through, the marriage of Otto and Ida is on the verge of self-destructing. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Alexandra Maria Lara
Romania
Best movies:
Rush (2013)
Control (2007)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Christian Ulmen
West Germany
Best movies:
The Elementary Particles (2006)
Herr Lehmann (2003)
Tough Enough (2006)
Simon Verhoeven
West Germany
Best movies:
Mogadishu Welcome (2008) (TV movie)
Bride of the Wind (2001)
The Miracle of Bern (2003)
Young-Shin Kim
South Korea
Best movies:
The Albanian (2010)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Valentin Platareanu
Romania
Best movies:
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Blazing Winter (1965)
Schimanski (1997) (series)
Elmar Wepper
German Empire
Best movies:
Cherry Blossoms (2008)
Lammbock - Alles in Handarbeit (2001)
Lommbock (2017)
Gustav Peter Wöhler
West Germany
Best movies:
Gigantics (1999)
Bin ich schön? (1998)
Soul Kitchen (2009)
Christoph Maria Herbst
West Germany
Best movies:
Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle (2015) (TV movie)
How About Adolf? (2018)
Vicky the Viking (2009)
Tanja Schleiff
East Germany
Best movies:
Downfall (2004)
Shoppen (2006)
The Red Cockatoo (2006)
Oliver Nägele
West Germany
Best movies:
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Bin ich schön? (1998)
Bliss (2012)
Eva-Maria Kurz
German Empire
Best movies:
Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland (1992)
Free Rainer (2007)
The Girl and Death (2012)
Victoria Deutschmann
East Germany
Best movies:
Go for Zucker! (2004)
Papa auf Probe (2013) (TV movie)
Inga Lindström (2004) (series)
Yvonne Yung Hee Bormann
South Korea
Best movies:
Sasha (2010)
Tatort (1970) (series)
The Samurai (2014)
Ulrike Kriener
West Germany
Best movies:
The Elementary Particles (2006)
Men... (1985)
Landgericht (2017) (TV movie)
Irmhild Wagner
German Empire
Best movies:
Bandits (1997)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Der Bulle von Tölz (1996) (series)
Eva Christian
German Empire
Best movies:
The Life of Verdi (1982) (series)
Resurrection (2001) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Susanne von Medvey (narrator)
West Germany
Best movies:
Das Zauberbuch (1996)
Felix - Ein Hase auf Weltreise (2005)
Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009)