Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films

Ein göttlicher Job
A GODDAMN JOB
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New Year’s Eve 2000. Jonathan’s exhausting 1000-year term as a demi-god is finally over. The blissful
paradise of the gods awaits! Actually, things aren’t quite so cool; in fact Jonathan is scared shitless because
in a couple of hours he’s got to report to Divine Central where his boss, the Over-Goddess
Yolanda, will grill him on his final report. Then he’ll be screwed, because she’ll quickly realize what a
mess this lazy, always-wasted demi-god has left behind. Even worse, Jonathan completely spaced out
finding himself a replacement, which could mean his having to endure 10 more centuries of this lowly,
partial-god crap. He winds up choosing Niklas, of all people, whose only relationship to eternity is with
the undying love he’s recently been hung up with. Facing the ultimate drag of yet another thousand
wasted years, Jonathan gathers all of his remaining wits to execute his plan. It’s going down on New
Year’s Eve, a night that Niklas will remember for a very, very long time.
A Goddamn Job takes nobody seriously and leaves nothing sacred. God trips around in threadbare
jogging pants, a guardian angel with blazing blue hair is charged with keeping “true love” true, and a
clueless comic artist named Niklas finds out that there’s more than one way to get to heaven.
Genre Comedy Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production
2000 Director Thorsten Wettcke Screenplay Thorsten
Wettcke Director of Photography Martin Ruhe Editors Brigitta
Paech, Camille Younan, Hansjörg Weißbrich Music by Jule Maas,
Nikolaus Sieveking, Peter Hinderthür Production Design Jürgen
Schnell, Martin Gnade Producers Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Schubert,
Eberhard Scharfenberg Production Companies Wüste
Filmproduktion, Hamburg, VCC Perfect Pictures, Hamburg, in co-production
with NDR, Hamburg, Buena Vista International Filmproduction,
Munich, Wüste Film West, Cologne Principal Cast Oliver Korittke,
Heike Makatsch, Thierry van Werveke, Anna Loos, Tamara Simunovic,
Oscar Ortega Sánchez, Martin Semmelrogge, Detlef Bothe Casting
Ingeborg Molitoris Special Effects Peter Wiemker Studio Shooting
Studio Bendestorf Length 83 min, 2271 m Format 35 mm, color,
1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital SR With backing from
FilmFörderung Hamburg, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, Filmbüro
NW, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) German Distributor Buena Vista
International (Germany) GmbH, Munich
Thorsten Wettcke was born in 1974.
His film career began quite early, with his
first short films dating back to 1993. In
1995, he broke off his film studies in Mainz
to become a scriptwriter for Wüste
Filmproduktion in Hamburg. Since then,
he has directed many, and acted in quite
a few, of his own films, including:
Nightmare on Danziger Street
(short, 1993), Fröhlicher Suizid
(short, 1994), Gotthold und Gotthilf
(short, 1994), Degeneration X (1995)
which received several prizes and considerable
recognition, Digital Dope,
Knut, and Anschlag (shorts, 1996)
and Die Rosenfalle (short, 1997).
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