Special Escort

Special Escort

97 mins | Comedy | Oct. 3, 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.

Special Escort

97 mins | Comedy | Oct. 3, 2007

Special Escort
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.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion, ARTE, ZDF
Original title Stellungswechsel
Directors Maggie Peren
Writers Christian Bayer, Maggie Peren

Cast

Florian Lukas

as Frank

Kostja Ullmann

as Lasse

Herbert Knaup

as Giselher

Nina Kronjäger

as Birte

Adriana Altaras

as Ulrike

Simon Verhoeven

as Wick

Diana Staehly

as Sabine

Annette Paulmann

as Andrea

Christian Heiner Wolf

as Beamter der Sitte

Katharina Heyer

as Lydia

Annette Kreft

as Inge

Ulrike Kriener

as Heide

Stefan Merki

as Reiner