Reclaim Your Brain (2007) - Turner Classic Movies

Brief Synopsis

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A television executive, frustrated with producing garbage, decides to start a broadcast revolution by hacking the code for tv set-top ratings boxes. The ratings figures are manipulated so that intelligent tv is hugely successful and trash tv fails miserably, and although this leads to a cultural rev

Cast & Crew

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Hans Weingartner

Moritz Bleibtreu

Elsa Schultz Gambard

Josef Heynert

Simone Hanselmann

Gregor Bloeb

Film Details

Also Known As

Dein Fernseher Lugt, Free Rainer, Free Rainer: Dein Fernseher Leugt, Free Rainer: Dein Fernseher Luegt

Genre

Comedy

Drama

Foreign

Satire

Release Date

2007

Production Company

Abc Distribution; Coop99 Filmproduktion; German Federal Film Board; Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Gmbh; Osterreichischer Rundfunk Fernsehen (Orf); The Match Factory Gmbh

Distribution Company

Baditri; Cinemien; Filmladen Gmbh; Id Distribution; PathT International; StudioCanal; Studiocanal; Vivarto Films Distribution

Location

Berlin, Germany; Vienna, Austria

Technical Specs

Duration

2h 18m

Synopsis

A television executive, frustrated with producing garbage, decides to start a broadcast revolution by hacking the code for tv set-top ratings boxes. The ratings figures are manipulated so that intelligent tv is hugely successful and trash tv fails miserably, and although this leads to a cultural revolution it also leads to backlash from the broadcasting powers-that-be.

Director

Hans Weingartner

Cast

Moritz Bleibtreu

Elsa Schultz Gambard

Josef Heynert

Simone Hanselmann

Gregor Bloeb

Andreas Lust

Milan Peschel

Tom Jahn

Andreas Brandt

Robert Viktor Minich

Ralf Knicker

Irshad Panjatan

Doris Goldpashin

Franziska Knuppe

Crew

Barbara Albert

Karsten Aurich

Simone Bär

Sebastian Fahr

Assistant Director

Sebastian Fahr-brix

Assistant Director

Martin Gschlacht

Jessica Hausner

Katharina Held

Raidar Huber

Adem Ilhan

Edith Kleibel

Udo Kramer

Production Designer

Christine A Maier

Director Of Photography

Thomas Oláh

Costume Designer

Martha Rues

Markus Schleinzer

Stefan Soltau

Sound Department

Antonin Svoboda

Nadine Von Volkmann

Bruno Wagner

Unit Production Manager

Hans Weingartner

Hans Weingartner

Andreas Wodraschke

Andreas Wodraschke

Sebastian Wurm

Property Master

Film Details

Also Known As

Dein Fernseher Lugt, Free Rainer, Free Rainer: Dein Fernseher Leugt, Free Rainer: Dein Fernseher Luegt

Genre

Comedy

Drama

Foreign

Satire

Release Date

2007

Production Company

Abc Distribution; Coop99 Filmproduktion; German Federal Film Board; Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Gmbh; Osterreichischer Rundfunk Fernsehen (Orf); The Match Factory Gmbh

Distribution Company

Baditri; Cinemien; Filmladen Gmbh; Id Distribution; PathT International; StudioCanal; Studiocanal; Vivarto Films Distribution

Location

Berlin, Germany; Vienna, Austria

Technical Specs

Duration

2h 18m

Quotes

Trivia

Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States September 2007

Released in United States October 2007

Released in United States February 2008

Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival (Official Selection) September 20-29, 2007.

Shown at Pusan International Film Festival (World Cinema) October 4-12, 2007.

Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (German Cinema) February 7-17, 2008.

"Free Rainer" expands on the themes of Weingartner's 2004 film, "The Edukators."

Released in United States September 2007 (Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival (Official Selection) September 20-29, 2007.)

Released in United States October 2007 (Shown at Pusan International Film Festival (World Cinema) October 4-12, 2007.)

Released in United States February 2008 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (German Cinema) February 7-17, 2008.)

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