Die Schimmelreiter

Die Schimmelreiter

5.8IMDb Score
Released:2009-05-21
Duration:100 min
Country:Germany
Director:Lars Jessen
Actors:Peter Jordan, Axel Prahl, Bjarne Mädel, Katharina Wackernagel, Petra Kelling
Production:Neue Mira Filmproduktion

Overview:

In today’s Friesland, Fuchs, a food inspector in the district, is always in a good mood and committed to investigating North German snack bars. He dreams of a career in Hamburg, for which he works hard. But his superior at the public order office, Sigmar Koch, asks Fuchs to do him a special favor: he has to accommodate his brother Tillmann, a bad-tempered drunk.

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