Happy Hour
Written & Directed by: Franz Müller
Director of Photography: Bernhard Keller
Starring: Simon Licht, Mehdi Nebbou, Alexander Hörbe
Producers: Sonja Ewers, Steve Hudson
Co-Producers:
Markéta Polednová, Katharina Jakobs
Executive Producers:
Dominic Wright, Jacqueline Kerrin
A GRINGO Film, in co-production with Film Boutique and Ripple World Pictures (Ireland)
In co-operation with WDR/Arte, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film.
Screenplay supported by the German Federal Film Board (FFA)
Genre: Comedy
Status: Post-Production
Three Germans. Two midlife crises. But only one Ireland.
Hans-Christian has a nickname of sorts - HC. But not much else. His wife has left him, taking his pride and any last vestiges of meaning to his life. Being a clever woman though, she didn't take his friends Nic and Wolfgang. In a gesture of romantic and not-very-well-thought-through spontaneity, it is these two who decide to save HC from despair by whisking him off for a back-to-the-roots holiday in Ireland.
The three men seek inspiration, raw nature, contact to their deeper inner selves, wild and free, and the bonds of true friendship. As it turns out, being stuck in a remote cottage with too much whiskey and too few girls isn't necessarily the ideal recipe for any of the above...
It's Twilight of the Gods. But with more drizzle. And less gods.
Happy Hour. A human comedy about men at their worst, by Franz Müller.