Rabbit Without Ears

Rabbit Without Ears
(Keinohrhasen)

German promotional picture
Directed by Til Schweiger
Produced by Til Schweiger
Thomas Zickler
Written by Til Schweiger
Anika Decker
Starring Til Schweiger
Nora Tschirner
Music by Stefan Hansen
Dirk Reichardt
Mirko Schaffer
Edited by Charles Ladmiral
Distributed by

Warner Bros.;

SevenOne International
Release dates
  • 20 December 2007 (2007-12-20)
Running time
 115 minutes
Country Germany
Language German
Budget €4,200,000
Box office $74,000,000

Rabbit Without Ears (German title: Keinohrhasen, lit: No Ear Rabbits), is a 2007 German romantic comedy film, written, produced and directed by Til Schweiger. Co-written by Anika Decker, and starring Nora Tschirner and himself, the story of the film revolves around yellow press reporter Ludo and his ex-classmate Anna, who reconvene after years when he is sentenced to 300 hours of community service at her day-care facility.

Produced by Barefoot Films and Warner Bros., the film premiered in theaters across Germany on 20 December 2007, and became a surprise box-office hit, eventually grossing $74,000,000, mostly from its domestic run. By 20 April 2008, Keinohrhasen had reached over six million viewers, ranking it sixth on the list of the most successful German films in Germany since the beginning of the audience census in 1968.[1] Also a critical success,[2] the film was awarded the Goldene Leinwand, a Bogey Award, the Deutscher Comedypreis and a Bambi and received a nomination for the Audience Award at the European Film Awards 2008.[3]

A sequel, entitled Rabbit Without Ears 2 was released on 3 December 2009.

Plot

Ludo Decker (Schweiger) is a Berlin based yellow press reporter. With his photographer Moritz, his daily routine is to spy on celebrities for the tabloid Das Blatt. He also uses his work for frequent sexual contacts with his objects of interest.

When heavyweight boxer and celebrity Wladimir Klitschko is about to toast his fiancee Yvonne Catterfeld at their engagement party, Ludo and Moritz are on the scene to report about it. Ludo breaks through a glass dome of the party venue, falls into the cake and is subsequently sentenced to 300 hours of community service at a daycare center.

There he meets Anna Gotzlowski (Tschirner), the center's manager. Anna grew up in the same neighborhood as Ludo and used to be picked on and mocked by him. She gets her revenge by appointing him to perform humiliating tasks. Ludo cannot fight this as his parole is at stake. Still, he is interested in one-night stands, and has an affair with a child's mother who frequents the facility.

After a while, the tensions between Anna and Ludo dissipate and the two become friends. When Anna's date with another man goes awry, she appears at Ludo's flat seeking comfort. The two of them end up in bed, yet Anna's hope that this could develop into something more serious is destroyed for the time being. Ludo sees her only as a friend, until Anna soon starts dating actor Jürgen Vogel, whom she meets in a park. After Ludo writes about her attending the German Film Awards ceremony with Vogel, describing her as the most beautiful woman around, he is fired by his editor.

In the end, Ludo realizes that he feels more for Anna than he had previously thought. During a children's festival at a local theatre, he crashes a performance and swears his love to Anna, who sits in the audience with the children. After his discharge from the tabloid paper, he takes up work at Anna's facility.

Cast

Soundtrack

Music from the Motion Picture album

Keinohrhasen
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released 7 December 2007
Genre Pop
Rock
Film music
Length 68:47
Label Universal Music
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
CDStars[6]

Track listing

  1. "Mr. Brightside" (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix) (The Killers) – 8:48
  2. "Deepest Blue" (Deepest Blue) – 3:24
  3. "Is It Love" (Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer) – 2:18
  4. "Anna & Ludo – Hold Me Now" (Rea Garvey) – 1:47
  5. "Springtimes" (Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer) – 2:56
  6. "Lifeline" (Angels & Airwaves) – 4:16
  7. "Autumn Leaves" (Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer) – 1:42
  8. "Everybody's Changing" (Keane) – 3:35
  9. "Looking for Atlantis" (Prefab Sprout) – 4:03
  10. "Rain" (Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer) – 1:18
  11. "I Still Remember" (Bloc Party) – 4:20
  12. "Liquid" (Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer) – 1:43
  13. "Everything's Magic" (Angels & Airwaves) – 3:51
  14. "Some Time" (Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer) – 1:59
  15. "Sad Song" (Au Revoir Simone) – 4:07
  16. "Apologize (Timbaland presents OneRepublic) – 3:04
  17. "A Rainy Day in Vancouver" (Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer) – 1:38
  18. "Rocket Brothers" (Kashmir) – 5:27
  19. "Perfect Circle" (Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer) – 2:57
  20. "Cheyenne Blue" (Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, Mirko Schaffer) – 1:40
  21. "Der Zauberlehrling" (Junge Dichter & Denker) – 3:54

Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Austrian Albums Chart[7] 13
European Top 100 Albums[8] 14
German Albums Chart[7] 2
Swiss Albums Chart[7] 46

Year-end charts

Chart (2008) Rank
German Albums Chart[9] 17

Certifications

Country Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Germany Platinum[10]

The title

While doing handicraft at the daycare centre, Ludo sews a stuffed rabbit without ears. As Anna criticises him for it, he points at the fact that another rabbit made by the child Cheyenne-Blue has no ears as well. Anna thereupon claims that it is a Keinohrhase, a no-ears rabbit, which is able to hear through its nose. This scene was also used for the first teaser trailer.

A rare earless rabbit born in February 2012 at a zoo in Limbach-Oberfrohna, Saxony was named "Til", in reference to this film's title and its director. The baby rabbit was accidentally crushed when a television cameraman stepped on him, an event that was briefly the subject of international media coverage.[11][12][13]

American remake

In January 2010, Schweiger sold the rights for the US remake of Keinohrhasen to Newmarket Entertainment; as he stated he hopes to direct the film and to engage Ben Affleck as leading man.[14]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Keinohrhasen feiert sechs Millionen Zuschauer". Kinozeit. 21 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  2. ↑ Carsten Baumgardt. "Keinohrhasen review". Filmstarts (in German). Retrieved 2008-12-29.
  3. ↑ "Awards for Keinohrhasen". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-12-29.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Film". Official website. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
  5. ↑ "Prouktion". Official website. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
  6. ↑ "Soundtrack – Keinohrhasen – Musik (CD)". CDstarts.de. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
  7. 1 2 3 "Keinohrhasen Performance". A-Charts.us. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  8. ↑ "Chart Archive". Billboard.biz. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  9. ↑ Archived 18 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ Archived index at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ Scally, Derek (19 March 2012). "Curse of fame strikes again as earless rabbit is crushed". Irish Times. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  12. ↑ "Til Bunny Dead: Cameraman Steps On German Celebrity Rabbit, Animal Meets Untimely Demise". Huffington Post. 15 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  13. ↑ "Rare Bunny With No Ears Crushed by Cameraman". Spiegel Online International. 14 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
  14. ↑ Meza, Ed (25 February 2010). "Schweiger aims for U.S". Variety.
  15. ↑ Archived 19 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
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