Blind Date (film series)

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The film series Blind Date with Olli Dittrich and Anke Engelke presented a new narrative form of the film: Two actors meet without prior script or knowledge of the role of the other.

Blind Date (2001)

Olli Dittrich really wanted to do a sketch with Anke Engelke . With little time available, the two decided to improvise. They met for a real blind date in an Italian restaurant that had several (apparently) hidden cameras installed. The resulting scenes appeared in several episodes of "Olli, Tiere, Sensationen" . A year later, ZDF broadcast “Blind Date” for the first time as a coherent film. The film was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2002.

Two people get to know each other through a box number ad: Rainer König (Olli Dittrich), a fifty-year-old driver in a car rental company, and Yvonne Herze (Anke Engelke), an insecure Berliner. Both have little self-confidence. He tries to play the gallant man, she has padded her cups. Two types of losers emerge who want to survive each other.

Blind Date 2 - Taxi to Schweinau (2002)

Engelke is the "quiet Ruth", a taxi driver from Cologne-Nippes, Dittrich the hunted and helpless Uwe Ackermann from Sprendlingen (Offenbach district, hence Dittrich's Hessian dialect) on the way to his father's will opening. During the one-hour journey, an interplay of profound reflections on life and banalities unfolds.

Blind Date 3 - The Five Legged Elephant (2002)

The sports educator Constance Pillmann and the brooding comic artist Sascha von Kramm meet in an elevator that promptly gets stuck. This is how they come to pause and speak out. It shows the different life plans, which in the end even develops into a little romance. And one thing is clear: real elephants have five legs.

The film was shot in a residential building in Cologne-Kalk that was about to be demolished. Seven cameras recorded what was happening in the elevator simultaneously.

Blind Date 4 - London-Moabit (2003)

This time Anke, the gallant hotel heiress, and Olli, the sloppy musician Kalle from Berlin, meet on the train from Bonn to Bingen am Rhein. The different résumés are clearly reflected in the behavior of the protagonists. Nevertheless, they are getting closer.

A special train was chartered for the shooting, including a real conductor and service staff.

Blind Date 5 - Blue Secret (2004)

Dittrich is Rocco "Morocco" Hakim, a knife-eater and circus director, Engelke is the primary school teacher Sonja Mette and teaches Rocco's nine-year-old son Florian. They meet at the parents' day. While she is talking about the beautiful pictures of the son, he is much more concerned with his dead horse. And yet the conversations are getting more and more intense.

Blind Date 6 - No Dancing (2005)

For the first time it is not about the meeting of two strangers. Engelke and Dittrich play the married couple Elke and Udo, the roles of two people who know each other well. They have just finished a family celebration. Now they are alone in their hotel room again, lying in bed and she is removing her make-up while he is playing with the cell phone. As soon as they talk about the celebration they have just experienced together, they get into each other's hair.

Awards

The series Taxi to Schweinau received the following awards:

From the reason: "Blind Date - Taxi to Schweinau" is the best innovative entertainment, in the tradition of the Commedia dell'arte.

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