Toni Erdmann

Toni Erdmann
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Maren Ade
Produced by	Maren Ade Jonas Dornbach Janine Jackowski Michael Merkt
Written by	Maren Ade
Starring	Peter Simonischek Sandra Hüller Ingrid Bisu Michael Wittenborn Thomas Loibl Trystan Pütter Hadewych Minis Lucy Russell Vlad Ivanov Victoria Cocias
Music by	Patrick Veigel
Cinematography	Patrick Orth
Edited by	Heike Parplies
Production companies	Komplizen Film coop99 filmproduktion KNM Missing Link Films SWR WDR Arte
Distributed by	NFP Marketing & Distribution (Germany) Soda Pictures (United Kingdom) Enfilade (Austria)
Release date	14 May 2016 (2016-05-14) (Cannes) 14 July 2016 (2016-07-14) (Germany) 15 July 2016 (2016-07-15) (Austria) 3 February 2017 (2017-02-03) (United Kingdom)
Running time	162 minutes
Country	Germany Austria
Language	German English Romanian
Budget	€3 million (USD$3.2 million)
Box office	$8.3 million

Toni Erdmann is a 2016 German-Austrian comedy-drama film directed, written and co-produced by Maren Ade. It stars Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller.

The film, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, was named the best film of 2016 by Sight & Sound and other respected cinema magazines.

It won five awards at the 29th European Film Awards: Best Film (a first for a film directed by a woman), Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Actor, and Best Actress. It also won the European Parliament LUX Prize. It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards and was considered the strong favourite for the award; it lost to The Salesman.

Winfried Conradi is a divorced music teacher, an old-age hippie of sorts, with a passion for bizarre pranks involving several fake personas. Following the death of his beloved dog, he decides to reconnect with his daughter, Ines, who is pursuing a career in business consulting. Ines is currently posted in Bucharest, Romania, where she works on an outsourcing project in the oil industry. She is consumed by her work and seems to have little time for her family, least of all her father.

Winfried spontaneously travels to Bucharest and waits for Ines in the lobby of an office complex. After several hours, she finally appears, accompanied by several of her client's board members and on the way to a meeting. Winfried puts on sunglasses and fake teeth as a playful disguise, and approaches her from the side while hiding behind a newspaper. Ines completely ignores her father, but meets with him briefly after work and invites him to a business reception.