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Meier

1986
Germany
feature film - Comedy
95 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Rainer Grenkowitz (Eduard 'Ede' Meier); Nadja Engelbrecht (Lore); Alexander Hauff (Karl-Heinz 'Kalle' Vorwerk); Thomas Bestvater (Erwin Pfeiffer); Horst Pinnow (Party Secretary Kuno); Susanne Schiffmann-Grabe (Ulla); Dagmar Biener (Moni); Joachim Kemmer (Escape Helper Kretschmar); René Grams (Klausi); Dieter Hildebrandt (Waiter); Wolfgang Nusche (Uncle Werner); Edith Teichmann (Aunt Inge); Jürgen Klauß (Comrad Lehmann); Ilse Ranft (Comrad Struntz); Kurt Ackermann (Colonel); Johanna Karl-Lory (Grandmother Krause); Klaus Münster (Border Guard); Eberhard Prüfer (Customs Official); Hans-Jürgen Wolf (Leather Jacket); Charlotte Adami (Mrs. Karpinski); Tamara Rohloff (Beautiful Woman); Clement de Wroblewsky (Fat Stasi); Elke Knittel (Customer); Bernd Ludwig (Mate); Steffen Laube (Leather Jacket); Bernd Vollbrecht (Leisure Leather Jacket); Gerry Beltz Show-Band (The 6 Brummer); Eberhard Prüter (Customs Officer)

Direction

Director: Peter Timm

Assistant director: Volker Maria Arend

Writing

Screenplay: Peter Timm

Script supervisor: Elke Kahlow

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Klaus Eichhammer

Assistant camera / focus puller: Reiner Lauter; Folkert Oehme

Still photographer: Claudette Barnes

Lighting design: Ulrich Lotze; Dirk Vossmerbäumer; Dieter Seidel

Decor

Set design: Martin Dostal

Prop master: Claus Baiser; Edgar Hinz

Construction manager: Heinz Klein

Make-up artist: Eberhard Neufink; Ellen Weiß

Costume design: Petra Kray

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Corina Dietz

Assistant editor: Pia Orlando; Lesja Zajac; Angela Freyer

Sound: Jochen Schwarzat

Sound assistant: Jimmy Corcoran

Audio mixing: Hartmut Eichgrün

Music

Music: Peter Goldfuß

Production

Producer: Alena Rimbach; Bertram Vetter

Co-Producer: Hans Kades

Editorial department: Werner Sommer; Bertram Vetter (SDR)

Line producer: Herbert Rimbach

Unit production manager: Herbert Rimbach

Location manager: Günther Russ; Jörg Grossmann

Production manager: Uli Adomat

Companies

Production company: Pro-ject Filmproduktion im Filmverlag der Autoren GmbH; Maran Film GmbH & Co. KG; Popular-Film GmbH; Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)