Die Mediocren

Deutschland 1994/1995 Spielfilm

Summary

The Meds

A tragicomedy about the adventures of two men and 2 women - the meds - who′d rather be anything than healthy, happy and mediocre. They all live in a large city in West Germany and are "Wessies" to the core. Precocious, disillusioned, morally eroded, politically bored and sexually sated.

 

They spend their time playing out melancholic variations on a theme of love, trusting neither themselves nor anyone else. Always on the run from the next compromise, they are all caught up in the mid-twenties crisis. In the midst of all this depression, one day, the suspicion arises that one of them is in fact a closet "Ossie", a liar and betrayer, an undercover agent and spy, a neo-Nazi or at least a Stalinist ... And suddenly the ghost of racism catches our enlightened, liberal meds off guard - because if there′s anything worse than a German, it′s being an East German. An absurd spiral of accusations, hearings and fear of being suspected follows. Then they all pull themselves together once more for a journey into the unknown reaches of east Germany - which, however, ends in disaster...

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

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Credits

All Credits

Director

Assistant director

Script supervisor

Screenplay

Director of photography

Assistant camera

Clapper loader

Gaffer

Dolly grip

Prop master

Construction manager

Costume design

Costumes

Editing

Assistant editor

Negative cutter

Sound editor

Sound

Sound assistant

Foley artist

Audio mixing

Special effects

Conductor

Producer (TV)

Line producer

Unit production manager

Production assistant

Production coordinator

Shoot

    • 06.06.1994 - 02.07.1994: Hamburg, neue Bundesländer
Duration:
2292 m, 84 min
Format:
Super 35mm
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby Stereo SR
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 22.03.1995, 72946, ab 12 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 13.12.1996, Nord 3

Titles

  • Originaltitel (DE) Die Mediocren

Versions

Original

Duration:
2292 m, 84 min
Format:
Super 35mm
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Dolby Stereo SR
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 22.03.1995, 72946, ab 12 Jahre / nicht feiertagsfrei

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 13.12.1996, Nord 3