THE PHARMACIST

Genre: Black Comedy
Year of Production: 1996/1997
Distribution: Senator Filmverleih, World sales: Cinepool
Director: Rainer Kaufmann

Production: Senator Filmproduktion
Executive Producers: Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion

Screenplay: Kathrin Richter, Ralf Hertwig
Based on the novel “Die Apothekerin” by: Ingrid Noll
Casting: Casting Trio
Director of Photography: Klaus Eichhammer
Editing: Ueli Christen
Score/ music: Ludwig Eckmann, Maximilian Geller
Production Design: Knut Loewe
Costume Design: Katharina von Martius
Make-up Artist: Martine Flener, Mechthild Schmitt
Sound recording: Martin Müller

Hella is thirty and a pharmacist. Her previously rather dreary love life gets a completely unexpected kickstart when three totally different kinds of men suddenly come into her life. Levin, a student with a liking for money, fast cars and beautiful women; Dieter, an ex-con with domestic ambitions; and Pavel, a romantic with a sense of family. As she initially has difficulty in making her mind up, a solution to her problems is offered by a well-stocked medicine chest and a series of mysterious deaths.

Katja Riemann (Hella), Jürgen Vogel (Levin), Richy Müller (Dieter), Isabella Parkinson (Margot), August Zirner (Pawel), Dagmar Manzel (Dorit), Andrea Sawatzki (alma Siebert), Joachim Tomaschewsky (Hermann Graber), Daniele Legler (Gero Meissen), Eva-Ingeborg Scholz (Gudrun Moormann), Friedrich von Thun (Rolf Moormann), Jan Gregor Kremp (Bob Moormann), Nanjana Sterzik (Hella als Kind), Joseph M’Barek (Bob als Kind), Janina Stopper (Lene Siebert), Sven Koller (Kolja Siebert), Sarah-Dominique Müller (Maja Meissen), Robert Auer (Robert Meissen), Jobst von Bomsdorft (Daniel Meissen), Patrick Oscity (Arztspieljunge), Florian Basset-Glükher (Klinkenjunge), Andrea Wackerbauer (Mörderin-Mädchen)

Filmförderungsanstalt, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg