Why Ulli wanted to kill himself on Christmas Eve

Movie
Original title	Why Ulli wanted to kill himself on Christmas Eve
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2005
length	89 minutes
Rod
Director	Edwin Brienen
script	Edwin Brienen
production	Sonny Mueller
camera	Ralf Schlotter
cut	Edwin Brienen
occupation
Marin Caktas : Ulli Tomas Spencer : Elton Laura Tonke : Astrid Ades Zabel : Evelyn Esther Eva Verkaaik : Karin Nicole Ohliger: Bettina René Ifrah : Heino Malah Helman: Cat Niels Bormann: Olaf Lydia Steier: Adelheid Hendrik Arnst : Pastor Eva Dorrepaal : Nicki Marc Baumgarten: colleague Chaim Levano : The grandfather Kerstin Schönbeck: Bookseller

Why Ulli wanted to kill himself on Christmas Eve is a German fiction film by the Dutch director Edwin Brienen from 2005 .

action

Ulli is a lonely soul and starts a desperate search for company. But whoever he asks, his best friend Elton, his sister Bettina and even his mother Evelyn, nobody has time for him. For Ulli, a three-day search begins full of rejection and humiliation. In an act of desperation, he decides to kidnap a girl he meets on the street in order to force her to spend Christmas Eve with him.

criticism

“... little pearls of the cheerful, desperate description of human lack of relationship and inability. A film full of tragic comics, which partly touches the line of the absurd. "

- tip magazine

“Modern update from Fassbinder. A nice present for Christmas enemies. "

- zitty magazine

“It's interesting how the film manages to sketch the all-Christmas tragedy in short, sparkling scenes. Satire and reality merge unrestrainedly to create close-ups of the society of western metropolises between loneliness, hatred and longing. Wonderfully poetic "

- Cinerama

"The film can confidently be counted among the most entertaining German films in recent years."

- New scene

Web links

• Why Ulli tried to kill himself on Christmas Eve in the Internet Movie Database (English)