DramaComedy

Peacock

- Am I Real?

Matthias is a master of his profession. Do you need a “cultured boyfriend” to impress your friends? A “perfect son” to influence your business partners’ opinion of you? Or maybe just a sparring partner to rehearse an argument? Whatever it is, just rent Matthias! While he excels at pretending to be someone else every day, just being himself is the real challenge.

Release Date : 2025-02-20

Language :German

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : CALA FilmproduktionNikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion

Production Country : AustriaGermany

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Matthias

Original Name : Albrecht Schuch

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sophia

Original Name : Julia Franz Richter

Gender : Female

Character Name : David

Original Name : Anton Noori

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ina

Original Name : Theresa Frostad Eggesbø

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nora

Original Name : Salka Weber

Gender : Female

Character Name : Vera

Original Name : Maria Hofstätter

Gender : Female

Character Name : Johann

Original Name : Branko Samarovski

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Deniz Cooper

Gender : Male

Character Name : Older Man

Original Name : Michael Gampe

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Sabine Herget

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Lena Kalisch

Gender : Female

Character Name : Blonde Man

Original Name : Clemens Berndorff

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wife of Customer

Original Name : Brigitte Kren

Gender : Female

Character Name : President

Original Name : Barbara Gassner

Gender : Female

Character Name : Guest 1

Original Name : Herbert Forthuber

Gender : Male

Character Name : Red-headed Woman

Original Name : Rina Juniku

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hotel manager

Original Name : Maria Fliri

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Katharina Haudum

Gender : Female

Character Name : 1. Golfer

Original Name : Thomas Sigwald

Gender : Male

Character Name : Golfie

Original Name : Christina Trefny

Gender : Female

Character Name : Theresa

Original Name : Eva-Maria Frank

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman at sidetable

Original Name : Alice Schneider

Gender : Male

Character Name : Other golfer

Original Name : Sebastian Thiers

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man with orange suit

Original Name : Markus Hamele

Gender : Male

Character Name : Retreat manager

Original Name : Roland Silbernagl

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man with glasses

Original Name : Wolfgang Oliver

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young man with Ina

Original Name : Michael Edlinger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cleaner

Original Name : Doris Drechsel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Man in young couple

Original Name : Christopher Korkisch

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hotel employee

Original Name : Nina Fog

Gender : Female

Character Name : Theatre companion

Original Name : Christoph Thim

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nurse

Original Name : Selina Graf

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-03-04

The moustachioed “Matthias” (Albrecht Schuch) works for a business that rents him out. Not for sex, but for just about everything else and he’s good at it. From a companion at a posh concert to a gay lover to a gent who pretends to be a son so he can help his “dad” get to be president of his golf club, he can turn his hand to most things with aplomb. Except, that is, in his perfectly styled home where he and girlfriend “Sophia” (Julia Franz Richter) are having troubles. She is fed up with the mundane sterility of their life and with him becoming more and more subsumed by his vocation. When she finally ups sticks, she leaves him having to deal with quite an existential crisis that causes him to completely reevaluate his life. What isn’t helping is the disgruntled husband of one of his “assignments” as he - “Johann” (Branko Samarovski) - is looking for his own pound of flesh and is no mean umbrella wielder! Perhaps a rural retreat might help? Well there he reunites with “Ina” (Theresa Frostad Eggesbø) whom he met on a previous job and who seems to take the same approach to the meditation lawn as he does (and probably we do, too!). In the end, though, his ordered life has been thoroughly upset and as his last and biggest task looms, maybe “Matthias” is facing his Waterloo? Some of the dialogue here is genuinely funny as the scenarios poke collective fun at pomposity, stupidity and at so much of society’s other, snobbish and preposterous, emperor’s new clothes attitudes. Schuch manages to keep a straight face throughout much of this and that - and as we come to the film’s coup de grâce, is actually quite an achievement. It’s a successful spoof of cinema genres across the board as well as one on human behaviour and I’m no dog lover, so that bit worked for me too! This is good fun.

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-03-04