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GLOBAL PLAYER (GLOBAL PLAYER - WO WIR SIND ISCH VORNE) (Past Film)
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Completed - GERMAN - Drama, Comedy - 95 minutes

Log Line

GLOBAL PLAYER tragicomically portrays a family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization.

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2014 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2014 (Screening)
Full history

Year of production : 2013

Director(s) : Hannes STOEHR
Writer(s) : Hannes STOEHR
Cast : Christoph BACH, Walter SCHULTHEISS, Inka FRIEDRICH, Ulrike FOLKERTS

Producer(s) : Karsten AURICH (Sabotage Films GmbH), Annedore VON DONOP (Sabotage Films GmbH), Hannes STOEHR

Synopsis

The family-run company "Bogenschuetz & Sons" has produced solid textile machines in Hechingen, a small Swabian city in southern Germany, for generations. But nowadays demand is down, since Asian competitors are cheaper. Michael Bogenschuetz (39, junior boss) is forced to negotiate on a sale with the Chinese behind his father’s back. But father Paul (90, senior partner) finds out and tries to get help from Michael’s sisters Marlies (45) and Marianne (49), in order to rescue his life’s work ... GLOBAL PLAYER tragicomically portrays a family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization.

Production

Country(ies) : GERMANY

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