Where Is Fred?
| Where Is Fred? | |
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| Directed by | Anno Saul |
| Produced by |
Eberhard Junkersdorf |
| Written by |
Ken Daurio Cinco Paul Bora Dağtekin |
| Starring |
Til Schweiger Alexandra Maria Lara Jürgen Vogel Christoph Maria Herbst |
| Music by | Marcel Barsotti |
| Cinematography | |
| Edited by | Tobias Haas |
| Distributed by | Senator Film |
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Release date
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November 16, 2006 |
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Running time
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111 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Where Is Fred? | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | 17 November 2006 |
| Genre | Pop, rock, funk, soul, classical |
| Label | Polystar |
Where Is Fred? (German: Wo ist Fred?), also credited as Where Is Fred!?, is a 2006 German film directed by Anno Saul, and produced by and Eberhard Junkersdorf. Written by Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul and Bora Dağtekin, it stars Til Schweiger, Alexandra Maria Lara, Jürgen Vogel and Christoph Maria Herbst.
Fred plans to marry his girlfriend Mara, and he proposes her at the sold–out basketball match. Instead of accepting, Mara puts that decision on her spoiled son, Linus. In order to get Linus to like him, Fred decides to give him a basketball from the Linus' favourite team. He poses as a wheelchair–bound fan so that he could get it. But when he catches the ball, he also catches the attention of young, attractive filmmaker Denise, who wants to feature an invalid fan in an image film for the team. Fred has to keep playing his role, while real invalid and really furious fan Ronny might call his bluff at any moment.
Where Is Fred? was released on DVD on 14 May 2007, and on Blu-ray on 21 January 2011. The soundtrack album was released on 17 November 2006 through the Polystar Records.
Where Is Fred? received mixed to negative reviews. Prisma-Online.de described the film as "flat, childish, annoying and stupid". The named it as "the mix of desolate confusion, outrageous script and irritating stereotype". However, F. M. Hemke of Filmszene.de wrote that Where Is Fred? was a "really funny and entertaining film, a successful firework of situation comedy, despite a lame start", and gave the film seven out of ten points. Matthew Englander of Live Journal gave the film rather mixed review, writing, "have to admit that parts of it were quite funny but overall it went on too long". Marcus Kleine Filmseit called the film "politically incorrect", but praised the performance of Christoph Maria Herbst. Claudia Wente also praised the performance of Jürgen Vogel and wrote that he "played with convincing ease".
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