Director: Philip Van
Screenplay: Simon Biggs
Photography: Felix Novo de Oliveira
Music: Martin Todsharow und Daniel Dickmeis
Main actors: Nicolette Krebitz und Wanja Mues
Cast: Sigrid Emmerich
Set design: Alexandra Pilhatsch
and Dietmar Ritter
Production manager: Ina Göring
Producer: Cordula Kablitz-Post /
avanti media fiction GmbH
Co-Producer: Edda Baumann- von Broen /
avanti media
and the International Filmfestival Berlin/
Berlinale Talent Campus 2006
HIGH MAINTENANCE
Jane and Paul are celebrating their wedding anniversary. But the mood is anything but festive. The conversation is trivial. Paul ignores Jane’s attempts at seduction. The frustrated Jane decides the Paul has to be replaced. How great, that you can just turn a robot husband off. A new Paul is quickly ordered by phone; more energetic, more adventurous and, as ordered, more ambitious. But the delight at the dream man does not last long …