Gott, du kannst ein Arsch sein! (original title)

UFA FICTION GmbH • Cinema • Fall 2020
Inspired by a true story, the film celebrates life. Filming will continue until October 2019 in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and France, with a planned theatrical release in fall 2020.

With Heike Makatsch (“Ich war noch niemals in New York”), Til Schweiger (“Honig im Kopf”), Jürgen Vogel (“Club der roten Bänder”), Benno Fürmann (“Babylon Berlin”), Jasmin Gerat (“Kokowääh”), Dietmar Bär (“Tatort”) and Inka Friedrich (“Sommer vorm Balkon”) as well as Max Hubacher (“Der Hauptmann”) and the young Sinje Irslinger in her first leading role in a movie, the film “Gott, du kannst ein Arsch sein!” has a prominent cast.

On the set in the Upper Palatinate: Max Conradt (Head of German Feature Film & Co-Production Universum Film), Jonas Holdenrieder, Heike Makatsch, Viola-Franziska Bloess (Producer UFA FICTION), Til Schweiger, Sinje Irslinger, Director André Erkau, Nuala Bauch, Author Frank Pape, Lars Nitschke (Film Commission Bayern), Tommy Wosch (Screenwriter & Producer UFA FICTION) (from left to right)
On the set in the Upper Palatinate: Max Conradt (Head of German Feature Film & Co-Production Universum Film), Jonas Holdenrieder, Heike Makatsch, Viola-Franziska Bloess (Producer UFA FICTION), Til Schweiger, Sinje Irslinger, Director André Erkau, Nuala Bauch, Author Frank Pape, Lars Nitschke (Film Commission Bayern), Tommy Wosch (Screenwriter & Producer UFA FICTION) (from left to right)

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16-year-old Steffi (Sinje Irslinger) has just graduated from secondary school and is full of zest for action. She is looking forward to her graduation trip to Paris and is planning a romantic night in the city of love with her boyfriend Fabi (Jonas Holdenrieder). After the school trip, Steffi’s dream career is supposed to come true – with training as a policewoman. But routine examinations reveal abnormalities in her blood count and it soon becomes clear: it’s cancer. Incurable. The Pape family’s world collapses. Her parents Eva (Heike Makatsch) and Frank (Til Schweiger) hope for a miracle. The graduation trip? Unthinkable with this diagnosis! But not for Steffi. When she meets the circus son and motorcycle acrobat Steve (Max Hubacher), who is fleeing from his authoritarian father (Jürgen Vogel) and offers to drive her to Paris, she doesn’t hesitate. With a stolen car and no money, the two set off. Eva and Frank want to bring their daughter to her senses and take up the chase. And so begins a unique road trip full of highs and lows, driven by deep longing and a lust for life. Steffi not only learns from Steve that you can ride cows and fly in the North Sea wind, but she also takes him more and more into her heart every day. Once she arrives in Paris, Steffi slowly realizes what she really wants – in the time she has left…

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“God, you can be an ass!” is a declaration of love to life. Inspired by the book of the same name with the true story of Stefanie Pape, written by Frank Pape, the film tells of a deeply moving, tragicomic journey. “Gott, du kannst ein Arsch sein!” is a production of UFA FICTION in cooperation with RTL, supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the German Federal Film Board FFA, the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the German Federal Film Fund DFFF. “Gott, du kannst ein Arsch sein!” is produced by Tommy Wosch (“Beck is back!”), who wrote the screenplay together with Katja Kittendorf. André Erkau (“Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge”, “Happy Burnout”) is the director. RTL’s executive producers are Philipp Steffens and Sylke Poensgen. Filming will take place in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and France until October.

Cast & Crew

CAST

Steffi Pape

Sinje Irslinger

Steve

Max Hubacher

Frank Pape

Til Schweiger

Eva Pape

Heike Makatsch

Lola Pape

Nuala belly

Fabian

Jonas Holdenrieder

Yup

Benno Fürmann

Matanola

Jürgen Vogel

Tammy

Jasmin Gerat

Armin

Dietmar Bär

CREW

Direction

André Erkau

Screenplay

Katja Kittendorf, Tommy Wosch

Camera

Torsten Breuer

Producer

Tommy Wosch

Producer

Viola-Franziska Bloess

Junior Producer

Sonja Menzel-Gnizia, Luisa Laute

Casting

Emrah Ertem

Production design

Thorsten Sabel

Costume design

Sarah Raible, Min Sun Kim

Make-up

Jennifer Porscheng

Cut

Robert Kummer

Music

Michael Regner

Sound

Christian Hermans

Production management

Dirk Ehmen

Production management

Kai Keppner

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