Peter Lohmeyer Movies
- 2007
A fantasy-prone fourteen year old girl finds her family life becoming fractured after her mother's former lover and his new family moves in next door in director Ulrike von Ribbek's study of a young girl's turbulent transition into adulthood. Nora is an introverted romantic who lives with her parents in a Berlin suburb. Her mother Anette has recently resumed her studies, and her father Uwe is struggling to keep his business afloat. When Anette's one-time lover Thomas and his family move into the house next door, young Nora begins to view him as everything that her father is not, and gradually starts to fall for him. A failed actor and mountaineer who has finally settled down with family, Thomas is handsome, charming, and worldly. Before long, Uwe is beginning to feel as if his entire life revolves around his former nemesis Thomas. Later, as Anette enters into an affair with a fellow student and Uwe's business venture begins to crumble, Nora sees the developments as an opportunity to give in to her desires for Thomas. Later, after Thomas and Uwe clash at a dinner party, the smitten adolescent begins to recognize the virtue in keeping reality and fantasy separate. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lola Klamroth, Peter Lohmeyer, (more)
- 2007
A few skirmishes from the ongoing battle between men and women are documented in this romantic comedy from Germany. Jan (Benno Fuermann) and Katrin (Jessica Schwarz) are a couple who literally met by accident -- attorney Jan was on a date with a woman he'd just met, Melanie (Annika Kuhl), when publisher Katrin bumped her car into Jan's, scraping the paint and sending him into a rage. While Melanie soon found herself infatuated with Jan's friend Ruediger (Matthias Matschke), Jan and Katrin's argument was the first step in a relationship that finds them living together two years later. While Melanie and Ruediger are happily married, things aren't quite so rosy for Jan and Katrin -- his head has been turned by Angie (Nadja Becker), a sexy if intellectually challenged woman working at his office, while Katrin has struck up a cozy friendship with handsome writer Jonathan Armbruster (Uwe Ochsenknecht). As Katrin ponders an offer from Jonathan to join him on a business trip to the United States, Jan wonders if he should act on his desires for Angie and Ruediger begins getting cold feet as Melanie discovers she's pregnant with the couple's first child. Warum maenner nicht zuhoeren und frauen schlect Einparken (aka Why Men Don't Listen And Women Can't Park) was inspired by a successful series of self-help books by Allan & Barbara Pease; an American film also drawn from their books is expected to be released in 2008. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jessica Schwarz, Matthais Matschke, (more)
- 2006
Volker Einrauch's The Other Boy concerns two teenage boys who, due to the very different demeanors, often clash. When an unforeseen shock from the world affects them each, they discover their differences might actually make them good friends. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andrea Sawatzki, Barbara Auer, (more)
- 2005
Germany is throwing its biggest party of the year, but some of the folks in attendance don't feel much like celebrating in this comedy-drama from writer and director Johannes Brunner. It's the final day of Munich's annual Oktoberfest, and while most of the folks on hand are having a beer-fueled blast, that isn't quite the case for everyone. College professor Richard (Peter Lohmeyer) is trying to show his kids Jenny (Samira Bedewitz) and Marc (Rick Nadler) a good time, but they're still upset over the fact he's left their mother and is sleeping with one of his students. Birgit (Barbara Rudnik), a waitress, has grown tired of her husband Max (August Schmolzer), a chronically unfaithful musician, through she can't decide if she should leave him. A restless teenage girl (Anna Bruggemann) falls for a boy in a wheelchair (Christoph Luser) until she discovers he has no trouble walking. The girl's mother, Maria (Hildegard Kuhlenberg), has been supporting the family by operating a haunted house attraction near the Oktoberfest, but she's not sure what to do when she learns she's lost her lease. And a couple from Japan (Gen Seto and Nahoko Fort-Nishigami) wonders if Munich was such a good idea for their honeymoon after a long day of drinking. Oktoberfest was shot on location in Munich during the 2005 celebration of the titular festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Barbara Rudnik, Peter Lohmeyer, (more)
- 2004
A young boy immersed in a fantasy world of his own crosses paths with a real-live talking terrier -- who just happens to be the inheritor of a palatial estate -- in this family-oriented fantasy from Mostly Martha director Sandra Nettelbeck. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Neil Lennart Thomas
- 2003
German filmmaker and former professional footballer (read: soccer player) Sönke Wortmann directs the family sports drama Das Wunder von Bern (The Miracle of Bern). The title is in reference to the unexpected German victory over the Hungarians at the 1954 World Cup in Bern, Switzerland. In the working-class Ruhr region of West Germany, the Lubanski family eagerly awaits husband and father Richard (Peter Lohmeyer) to be released from the Soviet POW camp. During his absence, mother Christa (Johanna Gastdorf) and daughter Ingrid (Birthe Wolter) have started up their own business, while son Matthias (Louis Klamroth) has developed an interest in soccer. He idolizes local player Helmut Rahn, but his father doesn't approve of it. Meanwhile, sports journalist Paul Ackermann (Lucas Gregorowicz) heads to Switzerland to cover the World Cup events. The finale at the climactic soccer game was re-created with professional players from the German Football Liga along with a 3-D stadium and CGI crowd. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Louis Klamroth, Peter Lohmeyer, (more)
- 2002
Swiss filmmaker Katalin Gödrös makes her feature debut with the German-language drama Mutanten. Paula (Karoline Teska) is a 13-year-old girl who lives with her mother (Barbara Philipp) and despises the idea of spending the summer vacation with her father (Peter Lohmeyer). She concocts a theory that all of humanity is stricken with a mutant virus. In her mind, everyone is infected except the moody 16-year-old Jens (Jakob Matschenz). When he steals a car and goes on the run, Paula goes with him. They encounter 19-year-old Charlotte (Sabine Timoteo) and set out to see the place where Jens' parents were killed. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Karoline Teska, Jakob Matschenz, (more)
- 2001
Daniel Diaz Torres directed this broad comedy about a family struggling to make ends meet in cash-poor Havana. Amancio (Enrique Molina) is a retired Cuban police officer who makes a point of following the letter of the law, and while many of his neighbors have different schemes to make extra money, Amancio will have no part of such doings. His wife, Concha (Coralia Veloz), and daughter, Alicia (Ketty de la Iglesia), however, have decided that necessity outweighs ethics, and they bend the local laws by renting out a room to Bjorn (Peter Lohmeyer), a professor of literature from a college in Sweden who is in Cuba on a research project. Or at least that's what he's told Concha and Alicia, but by the time Amancio finds out about this, the family has discovered there's more to Bjorn than they imagined. Hacerse el Sueco had its American premier at the 2001 Los Angeles Latino Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Lohmeyer, Enrique Molina, (more)
- 2000
Peter Fratzscher directs this slick, ironic werewolf movie. Likeable struggling novelist Thomas (Jan Josef Liefers) is looking for his big break while working at a sound-synch studio which specializes in horror flicks. One day, after checking out a roadkill accident, he is bitten by something large, smelly, and hirsute. After his grandmother (who lives in a cottage in the woods) is discovered torn to bits, and other people start turning up dead, Thomas begins to wonder if his recent lycanthropic nightmares weren't something more than dreams. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Gwisdek
- 2000
Volker Einrauch directs this wacky comedy about hapless criminals trying to go straight. As demanded by his girlfriend Mona (Laura Tonke), Vincent (Frank Giering) tries to get out of the business by engaging in an ill-conceived poker game. Owing 60,000 Deutschemarks to pimp Siggi, Vincent offers Mona as collateral -- and describes her as a whore named "Natasha." Unfortunately, Siggi in turn owes a stack of cash to sociopath Duvall (Christian Redl), who demands "Natasha" as payment. This film was screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, (more)
- 1998
Daniel Diaz Torres directed this Cuban-Spanish-German comedy, winner of the jury award at the Havana Film Festival. Following a summer costume party, German documentary filmmaker Herman Pangloss (Peter Lohmeyer) is found dead, and cop Lorenzo Columbie (Vladimir Cruz) investigates, getting different stories about Pangloss from everyone he interviews. Whom should he believe? Shown at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival (Made in Spanish '98) and the 1998 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Lohmeyer, Vladimir Cruz, (more)
- 1998
This German-Finnish comedy-drama road movie is the directorial debut of former production manager Peter Lichtefeld, known for his short films. Beer deliverer Hannes (Joachim Krol) is a trainspotter who obsessively studies timetables. Told he can't leave his job for the world's first International Timetable Competition, Hannes punches his boss and hits the road, unaware that he's become a suspect after the accidental death of his boss and a robbery of the company safe. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joachim Krol, Outi Mäenpää, (more)
- 1998
Gerardo Herrero directed this Spanish-Argentine-German-French period fantasy drama set in turn-of-the century Buenos Aires. After widowed Roque (Jose Coronado) killed a man in Spain, he emigrated to Argentina with his young son Ramon (Francisco Corbalan). With his friend Hermann (Peter Lohmeyer), Roque works for a tobacco distributor. A ghost, Maidana (Federico Luppi), murdered by a "cutthroat and philosopher," reveals himself to only two people -- Roque and brothel-owner Teresa, aka Piera (Maribel Verdu) -- a situation which brings Roque and Piera together romantically. Shown in competition at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jose Coronado, Peter Lohmeyer, (more)
- 1997
- NR
Safe sex just got a lot more dangerous in this purposefully outrageous comedy from Germany. A college professor, Mr. Smirnoff (Ralf Wolter) lures an attractive female student, who is willing to do just about anything to improve her grade, to New York's Hotel Quickie, where he avails himself of one of the free condoms provided by the management. However, the prophylactic in question has sprouted teeth and has a taste for blood, and before long, the prof is suddenly missing a penis. Assigned to investigate this strange case is detective Luigi Mackeroni (Udo Samel), a gay policeman who just transferred from Sicily and is a little lonely in his new home. When Luigi and Billy (Marc Richter), a good looking hustler, decide to repair to the Hotel Quickie for some fun and games, the detective himself is attacked by the carnivorous rubber (though his injuries are considerably less than those suffered by Prof. Smirnoff). Now much better acquainted with his new nemesis, Luigi has to convince his partner about the menace of the killer condoms, while in his spare time, he tries to brush off the uninvited advances of burly transvestite Babette (Leonard Lansink). Kondom des Grauens, released in the United States by Troma as Killer Condom, was based on a comic book by German cartoonist Ralf Koenig, who also wrote the screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1995
This stylish German thriller from auteur Lars Becker offers a suspenseful look into the world of contemporary gangsters. One particularly clever gang has slipped up and stands trial for smuggling limousines into Eastern Europe as the film opens. Two of the trio, Toni, the leader, and Pepe, his handsome partner, are put away while Guru is freed for lack of evidence. Toni doesn't stay incarcerated long as his gal Mona smuggles a pistol into the prison to help him break out. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Director Peter Sehr offers here another version of the origins of Kaspar Hauser, one of the most enigmatic characters in German history. According to this film, the title character is the real son of Duke Karl of Baden. Karl's brother Ludwig wants the throne for himself so he secretly orders a dying baby to be exchanged for the newborn heir. The real baby heir is promptly sent with a nurse to the countryside, but then is kidnapped by the Bavarians who are antagonistic to Baden. After Ludwig becomes a ruler of Baden, the young boy is kept in a cellar by the Bavarians, and then in 1828, after 12 years of confinement, he is brought to a square in Nuremberg in the early morning and left there alone. Unable to talk or walk, the young man is given the name Kaspar Hauser and is brought to the home of the kind professor Daumer, who teaches him to talk and introduces him to a civilized life. However, while the tension between the two rival countries increases, Ludwig of Baden sends his spies to seek out and eliminate the missing heir. Unlike Werner Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, which treated the leading character as a mysterious man of the universe, this is a rather straightforward tale of political intrigue, where Kaspar is merely a pawn in someone else's wicked game, and the film barely rises above the level of a beautifully crafted costume drama. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- André Eisermann, Udo Samel, (more)
- 1990
Jojo (Peter Lohmeyer) was counting on his inheritance from a rich uncle to pay off his gambling debts, but the old man played a dirty trick on him, giving him custody of an oversized dog, and leaving the real cash in the hands of one of his neices. His comfortable fantasy of future solvency has been sorely tried; to restore it, he begins to try wooing his cousin Kathrin (the woman with the loot). However, as things progress, he finds himself actually falling for her, which is perhaps the only really decent thing that he's done in his adult life. When he and a gambling buddy take Kathrin (Anica Dobra) on a jaunt to the south of France, things get pretty dicey when a corrupt cop comes onto the scene. In this romantic thriller, only one will survive. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Lohmeyer, Anica Dobra, (more)
- 1989
Suffering from complex and difficult personal lives, the three women at the core of this drama seek out one another, their childhood friendships now giving them perspective on their current situations. Meanwhile, a parade of the characters in their lives shows some of the multifaceted challenges they face. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sabine Kaack, Martina Gedeck, (more)
In this taut drama, two documentary makers risk it all to complete their expose of a prominent music promoter, who decides to stop them before they ruin his career. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
