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Pingpong

Pingpong

2006Movie⏱️ 1h 29m
Drama
6.2
IMDB Rating
1,316 votes

After his father's suicide, confused angsty 16 year old Paul goes to stay with his uncle's family. His uncle's wife is also unhappy with her life, so she and Paul have sex and only end up feeling even worse afterwards. Things get ...

Director
Matthias Luthardt
Writers
Meike Hauck, Matthias Luthardt
Stars
Sebastian Urzendowsky, Marion Mitterhammer, Clemens Berg
Release Date
November 16, 2006
Language
German
Country
Germany
🏆 5
Wins
🎯 3
Nominations
💬 7
Reviews
📋 6.6K
Watchlists
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🎭 Top Cast

Sebastian Urzendowsky
Sebastian Urzendowsky
as Paul
Marion Mitterhammer
Marion Mitterhammer
as Anna
👤
Clemens Berg
as Robert
Falk Rockstroh
Falk Rockstroh
as Stefan
👤
Mark White
as Passer by

💰 Box Office

$32,724
Worldwide Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
Filming Location
Ballenstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Production
Junifilm, Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen 'Konrad Wolf', Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR)

🏷️ Keywords

cheating wifesex scenewife cheats on husbandfamily relationshipscoming of old age

🎯 Categories

GermanComing-of-AgePsychological DramaDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Garden sociology
by federovsky2015-07-21

"An emotionally disturbed teenager turns up at the home of some repressed relatives. This simple substrate economically combines a surprising number of subtle issues: grief, boredom, alcoholism, stress, lust, and homosexuality, amounting to quite a timebomb in a deceptively domestic situation. It has a dusky, brooding quality - feeling almost like a mild version of Funny Games or Visitor Q. The boy is dealing with his father's recent suicide and an evident sense of abandonment resulting in various behavioural phenomena that sociologists will have terms for. His cousin's family has it..."

💡 Did You Know?

French subtitles (original version with subtitles) by Titra Film Paris. French text by Marie Marcelot.

📖 Synopsis

After his father's suicide, confused angsty 16 year old Paul goes to stay with his uncle's family. His uncle's wife is also unhappy with her life, so she and Paul have sex and only end up feeling even worse afterwards. Things get ...