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Special Escort (2007)
Directed by Maggie Peren
Overview
The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren’s tale of five male underdogs who promulgate themselves as female escorts in the city of Munich. Of that group, we meet policeman Gy, in hot water with his insurance company and enduring the vicissitudes of an on-again, off-again romance with comely Daphne; twentysomething Lasse, who lives with his mom and is pathetically henpecked by her; Giselher, a chronically unemployed former manager; Frank, a philologist who spends his days as a house husband; and Olli, a deli proprietor whose business is rapidly going under. These five conjure up the wild idea of charging for liaisons with emotionally needy women, but the scheme doesn’t exactly go as planned - as none can even begin to anticipate the eccentricities or oddities of the female clients who turn up in response to their offer.
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Florian Lukas | Gustav-Peter Wöhler | Sebastian Bezzel | Kostja Ullmann | Herbert Knaup | Lisa Potthoff | Nina Kronjäger | Adriana Altaras | Simon Verhoeven | Diana Staehly | Annette Paulmann | Christian Heiner Wolf | Katharina Heyer | Annette Kreft | Ulrike Kriener | Florian Karlheim | Stefan Merki