Synopsis
Focuses on three very different siblings, all searching for happiness. Hans-Jörg is a sex addicted librarian, who is interested in young students. Werner is a successful politician with a dysfunctional family. Agnes, a trans woman, works as a table dancer in a night club. The three brothers just have one thing in common: their longing for a happy life.
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Cast
- Moritz BleibtreuHans-Jörg Tschirner
- Martin WeißAgnes Tschirner
- Herbert KnaupWerner Tschirner
- Katja RiemannSigne Tschirner
- Tom SchillingRalf Tschirner
- Vadim GlownaGünther Tschirner
- Margit CarstensenRoxy
- Suzan AnbehDesiree
- Lee DanielsHenry Preminger
- Marie ZielckeNadine
Recommendations
- 80
Salon
Roehler mixes cheap sex humor, existential darkness, buffoonish satire and profound tenderness in almost classic proportions. Maybe this is too uneven to be a masterpiece, but it's somewhere close. - 63
New York Daily News
Roehler aims scattershot barbs at so many targets, from political hypocrisy to suburban entitlement, that he often misses. But whenever he takes the time to line up his toxic arrows, usually with the help of a compellingly squirmy Bleibtreu, he hits the bull's-eye. - 63
Chicago Tribune
It's a slick, ambitious movie that doesn't always nail all the many moods and themes it's after. - 50
Variety
A Teutonic version of "American Beauty" with added dysfunctionality. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Writer-director Oskar Roehler spends all his energy on cataloging ''outrageous'' behavior, and none on giving the transgressions any meaning. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The results isn't especially engaging, despite a quietly charismatic performance by Weiss, a relative newcomer who holds his own against far more experienced actors. - 50
New York Post
Dysfunctional families don't come much more messed up than the one in Agnes and His Brothers, a comic drama from Germany. - 42
The A.V. Club
Oskar Roehler's serio-comedy Agnes And His Brothers tries to make some incisive points about the damage wrought by society's sexual hang-ups, but though Roehler throws three different characters at the subject, only one halfway sticks.
