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Released
1999 · FILM

Picknick im Schnee

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Written by
Runtime
88 min
Language
DE
TV MovieComedy

Synopsis

Johannes Breutigam, a successful architect, faces a crisis on New Year's Eve. His wife is having an affair, his business partner Losfeld has betrayed him, and his company is close to bankruptcy. Overcome with despair, he rents a hotel room on the 32nd floor, writes a farewell letter to his wife, and opens the window in preparation to jump. A young woman is found standing on the window sill of the adjacent room, seemingly ready to do the same. After promising to spend the last night of the year together, Johannes manages to save both her and himself—at least temporarily. What follows is a strange, romantic, and comical story set on a single New Year's Eve, in which two people begin to change their lives.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Christian NauheimerShot by Diethard PrengelScored by Daniel SchnyderDesigned by Hans Jurgen Deponte

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