The Good Neighbour (film)

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The Good Neighbour
Directed byStephan Rick
Written byStephan Rick
Silja Clemens
Produced byDaniel Reich
Christoph Holthof
Starring Maxim Mehmet
Charly Hübner
Petra Schmidt-Schaller
CinematographyFelix Cramer
Edited byFlorian Drechsler
Music byStefan Schulzki
Release date
Running time
95 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Budget$1.3 million [1]

The Good Neighbour (German : Unter Nachbarn) is a 2011 German drama/thriller film directed by Stephan Rick. It premiered in competition at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival [2] and was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival [3] and the Hof International Film Festival. [4]

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In 2022, Rick directed an English-language remake of his own film (under the same title), starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Robert Graetz, Luke Kleintank as David Ahrens, Eloise Smyth as Vanessa Rafael, Bruce Davison as Grant and Ieva Florence as Janine Rafael.

The Good Neighbour was shot on location in Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden (including the Waldenecksee) and Mannheim, Germany. [5] The thriller, about a new friendship between two men that takes a dark turn, is Rick's debut feature film. [1] His previous work, the children's TV series Allein gegen die Zeit , had been nominated for the German Television Award and the International Emmy Award. [6] The film received half its funding from German broadcaster ARD's SWR unit and from the film fund of Baden-Wuerttemberg. [1]

Charly Hübner was awarded "Best German actor" of 2013, a Golden Camera Award. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Landreth, Jonathan (14 June 2011). "'The Good Neighbor' Leads the German Charge at the Shanghai International Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "'The Good Neighbor' Leads the German Charge at the Shanghai International Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter . 14 June 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "Unter Nachbarn". World Film Festival 2011. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Unter Nachbarn". Hof International Film Festival 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "Unter Nachbarn credits". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  6. ↑ "Awards for Allein gegen die Zeit". IMDb. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  7. ↑ Ring, Matthias (25 August 2013). "Porträt von Charly Hübner: Wie ist man so geworden, wie man ist?". stuttgarter-zeitung.de (in German). Retrieved 9 January 2019.


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