Writer: Alexander Buresch
Producers: Andreas Fallscheer, Henning Ferber, Marcus Welke, Sebastioan Zuhr
Editor: Barbara Gies
Cinematographer: Matthias Fleischer
Music: Max Richter
Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Hannah Herzsprung, Henry Hubchen

The proverbial Death of the Author theory is taken literally in this fresh, rags to riches romantic comedy starring Daniel Bruhl (GOODBYE, LENIN!, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS). A timid waiter named David Kern (Bruhl) becomes a sudden and unlikely literary star with the publication of a best-selling novel. The catch? He didn't actually write it. Longing to impress the sophisticated academic Marie (Hannah Herzsprung), David pretends to be the author of an aged manuscript serendipitously discovered in a dresser drawer. Now a fish out of water in the literati circle, David watches his little lie spin completely out of control when he discovers that the real author of his book may not be dead.

Alain Gsponer is a Swiss director whose films include KIKI AND TIGER and ROSE. He studied at the Academy of Film in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

 

Alain Gsponer is a Swiss director whose films include KIKI AND TIGER and ROSE. He studied at the Academy of Film in Ludwigsburg, Germany.