Special Escort

Special Escort

2007 · 97 min · ★ 5.2 · Comedy

The subject of male prostitution gets a distinctly zany and offbeat twist in Stellungswechsel (AKA Special Escort), Maggie Peren's tale of five male underdogs who promulgate themselves as female escorts in the city of Munich. Of that group, we meet policeman Gy, in hot water with his insurance company and enduring the vicissitudes of an on-again, off-again romance with comely Daphne; twentysomething Lasse, who lives with his mom and is pathetically henpecked by her; Giselher, a chronically unemployed former manager; Frank, a philologist who spends his days as a house husband; and Olli, a deli proprietor whose business is rapidly going under. These five conjure up the wild idea of charging for liaisons with emotionally needy women, but the scheme doesn't exactly go as planned - as none can even begin to anticipate the eccentricities or oddities of the female clients who turn up in response to their offer.

Directed by Maggie Peren · Written by Maggie Peren

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Florian Lukas Frank
Gustav Peter Wöhler Olli
Sebastian Bezzel Gy
Kostja Ullmann Lasse
Herbert Knaup Giselher
Lisa Maria Potthoff Daphne
Nina Kronjäger Birte
Adriana Altaras Ulrike
Simon Verhoeven Wick
Diana Staehly Sabine
Annette Paulmann Andrea
Christian Heiner Wolf Beamter der Sitte

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