Rabbit Without Ears

Rabbit Without Ears
(Keinohrhasen)
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTil Schweiger
Written byTil Schweiger
Anika Decker
Produced byTil Schweiger
Thomas Zickler
StarringTil Schweiger
Nora Tschirner
Edited byCharles Ladmiral
Music byStefan Hansen
Dirk Reichardt
Mirko Schaffer
Production
companies
Barefoot Films
Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany
Seven Pictures
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • 20 December 2007 (2007-12-20)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Budget€4,200,000
Box office$74,000,000

Rabbit Without Ears (German title: Keinohrhasen, lit. "No Ear Rabbits") is a 2007 German romantic comedy film, written, produced and directed by Til Schweiger. Co-written by Anika Decker,[1] and starring Nora Tschirner and Schweiger himself, the plot revolves around yellow press reporter Ludo and his ex-classmate Anna, who reconnect after many years when he is sentenced to 300 hours of community service at her day-care facility.

Produced by Barefoot Films and Warner Bros. Germany, the film premiered in theaters across Germany on 20 December 2007, and became a surprise box-office hit, eventually grossing $74,000,000, mostly from its domestic run. By 20 April 2008, Keinohrhasen had reached over six million viewers, ranking it sixth on the list of the most successful German films in Germany since the beginning of the audience census in 1968.[2] Also a critical success,[3] the film was awarded the Goldene Leinwand, a Bogey Award, the Deutscher Comedypreis and a Bambi and received a nomination for the Audience Award at the European Film Awards 2008.[4]

A sequel, entitled Rabbit Without Ears 2, was released on 3 December 2009.

  1. ^ "German Screenwriter Anika Decker Wins Residual Lawsuit Against Til Schweiger, Warner Bros". Hollywood Reporter.
  2. ^ "Keinohrhasen feiert sechs Millionen Zuschauer". Kinozeit. 21 April 2008. Archived from the original on 16 October 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2008.
  3. ^ Carsten Baumgardt. "Keinohrhasen review". Filmstarts (in German). Retrieved 29 December 2008.
  4. ^ "Awards for Keinohrhasen". IMDb. Retrieved 29 December 2008.