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Life is too long

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Original title

Das Leben ist zu lang

Year

2010

Running time

86 min.

Country

Germany

Director

Dani Levy

Screenwriter

Dani Levy

Cast

Music

Niki Reiser

Cinematography

Carl-F. Koschnick

Producer

Warner Bros., X Filme Creative Pool

Genre

Comedy. Drama

Synopsis

No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unfair as Alfi Seliger’s. The Jewish filmmaker hypochondriac and family man has a whole slew of troubles: his pubescent children, Romy and Alain, think he’s a ridiculous loser, while his wife, Helena, thinks they are being generous. Not only that, his bank is going under and his new film project is being paned. Alfi is getting deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and conspiracy. Natasha, the gambling-addict wife of a big producer, is after him, and so is onetime German world star Georg Maria Stahl. Friends are turning into enemies, hope into paranoia, and when even his psychiatrist advises him to end his miserable life; Alfi tries to kill himself, in a very theatrical gesture. But as benefits a born “nebbish”, a loveable loser, even his suicide fails; he survives and wakes up to his old life. But is it really the same?

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User history

Life is too long

2010

Dani Levy

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2020

Terry Ingram