'DIE LIEBESKÜMMERER' - Follow the Love-Hate Relationship Between Rosalie Thomass and Laurence Rupp in a Movie About an Agency for the Heartbroken - Spring 2024 Only on Netflix

Director: Shirel Peleg

Director of Photography: Stephan Burchardt

Screenplay: Antonia Rothe-Liermann, Malte Welding

Producer: Nataly Kudiabor (UFA Fiction)

Executive Producers: Leonie Franziska Geisinger, Leslie-Alina Schäfer

Cast: Rosalie Thomass (Maria), Laurence Rupp (Karl), Cora Trube (Hedi), Jerry Hoffmann, Jakob Schreier, Denise M’Baye, Özgür Karadeniz, Charleen Deetz, Margarethe Tiesel Paula Schramm, Arash Marandi, Maria Hofstätter, Timur Isik, Amélie Miloy and more.

Production: UFA Fiction GmbH

Berlin, Munich June 26, 2023 – At the Munich International Film Festival today, Netflix revealed the first sneak-peeks of its new romantic comedy Die Liebeskümmerer, due for release in Spring 2024. The UFA Fiction production is based loosely on the successful self-help book by Elena-Katharina Sohn Goodbye Herzschmerz (“Goodbye Heartache”). In 2011, after separating from her life partner, Sohn founded the “Liebeskümmerer” agency in Berlin, where she helps people who have been struck by heartbreak find a way out of their emotional turmoil.. She eventually published Anleitung zum Wieder-Glücklichsein (“How to Be Happy Again”), documenting her challenges in processing her own heartache and helping her clients do the same, which became a bestseller.

The movie Die Liebeskümmerer was directed by Shirel Peleg (Kiss Me Kosher, Tatort: Die Nacht der Kommissare), with a screenplay by Antonia Rothe-Liermann (The Wall Between Us, Barbarians) and Malte Welding (It's Just a Phase, Honeybunny, Text for You). Rosalie Thomass (The Kangaroo Conspiracy, Hunting Season) stars in the leading role as a sympathetic agency boss and single mother Maria, alongside Laurence Rupp (Broll + Baroni, Barbarians) as Karl – a journalist and incurable ladies’ man. Nataly Kudiabor was the producer. The movie was filmed in Berlin, Brandenburg, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The witty dialogues in Die Liebeskümmerer put an age-old dilemma into a  modern (online-dating) context – everything could be so easy if only we didn’t let disappointment, resignation and cynicism get in the way of love. Cora Trube, Jerry Hoffmann, Jakob Schreier, Denise M’Baye, Özgür Karadeniz, Charleen Deetz, Margarethe Tiesel, Paula Schramm, Arash Marandi, Maria Hofstätter, Timur Isik, Amélie Miloy, and many more star alongside the lead actors.

About Die Liebeskümmerer

Is anyone even heartbroken these days? A young journalist wants to expose the charming founder of the Heartache Agency as a fake – and gets caught up in a search for his own lost ability to love. The RomCom Die Liebeskümmerer is based on the bestselling self-help book Goodbye Herzschmerz by Elena-Katharina Sohn.

About UFA Fiction

UFA Fiction unites the top creatives in the German television industry under one roof. For years it has been responsible for lasting success with ratings and stunning fictional programs. The firm brings together UFA’s production work on series, TV and big-screen movies, and events, resulting in an impressive portfolio that has helped shape the German television landscape. Many productions have both been huge public successes and awarded multiple national and international TV and movie awards, including two International Emmy Awards, as well as being sold abroad. These successes include big-screen hits like THE PHYSICIAN and ALL ABOUT ME, event and high-end drama formats like GENERATION WAR, DEUTSCHLAND83/86/89, CHARITÉ 1/2/3, KU’DAMM 56/59/63 and FAKING HITLER and SAM – A SAXON, as well as high-rated shows and long-running crime series like EIN STARKES TEAM, DIE DIPLOMATIN and SOKO LEIPZIG. UFA Fiction is headed up by CEOs Markus Brunnemann, Nataly Kudiabor, Ulrike Leibfried and Sebastian Werninger.

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