Special Escort (2007)
The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren's tale of five male underdogs who promulgate themselves as female escorts in the city of Munich. Of that group, we meet policeman Gy, in hot water with his insurance company and enduring the vicissitudes of an on-again, off-again romance with comely Daphne; twentysomething Lasse, who lives with his mom and is pathetically henpecked by her; Giselher, a chronically unemployed former manager; Frank, a philologist who spends his days as a house husband; and Olli, a deli proprietor whose business is rapidly going under. These five conjure up the wild idea of charging for liaisons with emotionally needy women, but the scheme doesn't exactly go as planned - as none can even begin to anticipate the eccentricities or oddities of the female clients who turn up in response to their offer.
Director: Maggie Peren
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Florian Lukas as Frank |
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Gustav Peter Wöhler as Olli |
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Sebastian Bezzel as Gy |
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Kostja Ullmann as Lasse |
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Herbert Knaup as Giselher |
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Lisa Maria Potthoff as Daphne |
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Nina Kronjäger as Birte |
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Adriana Altaras as Ulrike |
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Simon Verhoeven as Wick |
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Diana Staehly as Sabine |
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Annette Paulmann as Andrea |
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Christian Heiner Wolf as Beamter der Sitte |
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Katharina Heyer as Lydia |
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Annette Kreft as Inge |
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Ulrike Kriener as Heide |
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Florian Karlheim as Tobi |
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Stefan Merki as Reiner |
| Directing | Maggie Peren | Director |
| Writing | Christian Bayer | Author |
| Writing | Maggie Peren | Writer |
