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Suck My Dick

Dr. Jekyll is the author of the best selling book Suck My Dick and he has a really big problem: the main character of his novel, Mr. Hyde, breaks out of Dr. Jekyll's brain and sets up on his own. The nightmare begins.
With the help of the enchanting fairy Jeanny, Hyde slowly takes over Dr. Jekyll's life. The author loses his hair, his teeth, his manliness and even his standing as a shooting star in the literature scene. His young girlfriend decides to leave him and when he begs his ex-wife for help, she lets him down as well. His psychologist considers Dr. Jekyll to be in a terrible state of mid-life-crisis and even diagnoses schizophrenia. Only his daughter stands by his side during the ordeal. As we see him fighting his nightmare, which became reality, we wonder if he will ever wake up ...

Oskar Roehler was born in 1959 in Starnberg, the son of husband and wife authors, Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. He started his career as a screenwriter of various cinema films and directed his first feature Gentleman in 1995. His film No Place to Go (Die Unberuehrbare, 2000), a very personal and sensitively told portrait of his mother, was Roehler's breakthrough. The film was awarded the German Film Award in Gold, among other awards, and Hannelore Elsner received the German Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. His other award-winning films include: Angst (Der alte Affe Angst) which was in the competition at the Berlinale in 2003, Agnes and His Brothers (Agnes und seine Brueder) which screened in Venice, his film adaptation of Michel Houellebecqs' novel of the same name Elementary Particles (Elementarteilchen) which screened in competition at the Berlinale in 2006, and Lulu & Jimi (2008).
 

Genre Art, Comedy
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2000
Director Oskar Roehler
Screenplay Oskar Roehler
Director of Photography Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
Editor Gergana Voigt
Music by Martin Todsharow
Production Design Alexander Manasse
Producers Werner Koenig, Rudolf Markus Reischl
Production Company Helkon Media Filmproduktion/Munich
Principal Cast Hannelore Elsner, Katja Flint, Vadim Glowna, Wolfgang Joop, Ralf Richter, Edgar Selge
Casting Antje Miesbach, Watergate Casting
Special Effects CA Scanline Production/Geiselgasteig
Studio Shooting Studio Berlin
Length 82 min, 2,289 m
Format 16 mm
Blow-up 35 mm, Color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Festival Screenings Rotterdam 2002, Gothenburg 2002, Warsaw 2002 (German Panorama)
German Distributor Helkon Filmverleih GmbH/Munich