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Otto - The Disaster Movie

Otto - The Disaster Movie

20005.11h 27m

Overview

A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and perhaps a touch too much wordplay at the expense of others. But what is worst of all: he has also made a film about it!

Directed by Edzard Onneken
Written by Bernd Eilert, Otto Waalkes, Michel Bergmann
Produced by Horst Wendlandt
Box Office0Revenue: $5.1M

Top Cast

Otto Waalkes

Otto Waalkes

Otto, Baby-Otto, Otti, Großvater

Eva Haßmann

Eva Haßmann

Sonja

Reiner Schöne

Reiner Schöne

Kapitän Lackner

Michael Schweighöfer

Michael Schweighöfer

Kern

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Wotan Wilke Möhring

Brock

S

Steffen Münster

Kruse

Tilly Lauenstein

Tilly Lauenstein

alte Dame mit Hund

Wilfried Hochholdinger

Wilfried Hochholdinger

Chef

Ben Becker

Ben Becker

Kofferverkäufer

Boris Aljinovic

Boris Aljinovic

Geburtshelfer

Themes & Keywords

parent child relationshipdifficult childhoodcruiseinfanteast friesland

About Otto - The Disaster Movie

Otto - The Disaster Movie is a comedy film released in 2000 exploring themes of parent child relationship, difficult childhood, cruise, infant, east friesland. Directed by Edzard Onneken, it stars Otto Waalkes, Eva Haßmann, Reiner Schöne. A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes and perhaps a touch too much wordplay at the expense of others. But what is worst of all: he has also made a film about it!

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