Manila

2000 Drama

After a rat is discovered on board their airplane, a group of travelers is stranded at the Manila airport. They include the mild-mannered Knut (Peter Ruehring) and his icy wife Regine (Margit Carstensen), who are both history teachers from eastern Germany. Knut befriends the jovial Walther (Michael Degen) and his Filipino wife Maribel (Chin-Chin Gutierrez), who are taking the body of Walther's dead son back to Germany. Also along for the wait is Cora (Ana Capri), a businesslike husband hunter; Rudi and Herbert, two skirt-chasing brothers who fall in with a poised American-German journalist (Elizabeth McGovern); and sex tourist Franz (Martin Semmelrogge), who forms an unlikely relationship with Mercy (Ces Quesada), a shy washroom attendant who can't understand a word Franz is saying.

Director: Romuald Karmaker

Starring: Peter Ruehring, Sky Dumont, Margit Carstensen, Jürgen Vogel, Martin Semmelrogge

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Awards

  • Best Screenplay (Drehbuchpreis)

    Bavarian Film Awards (2000)

  • Best Feature

    Chicago International Film Festival (2000)

     
  • Young Cinema

    Locarno International Film Festival (2000)