Running on Empty
- 2006
- 1h 40m
- Drama
Overview
The dull daily routine of an insurance agent, who listlessly drives down the highway every day and conducts customer meetings while longing for his family, becomes a metaphor for a life that has come to a standstill and is threatened with being crushed by loneliness.
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Music
Music by Wim Mertens
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Bülent AkinciScreenplay
- Original title
- Der Lebensversicherer
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 14, 2006
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
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All options, opens in a new tabCast
Jens HarzerBurkhard Wagner
Susanne MennerGast
Marina GalicCarolin Wagner
Anna Maria MüheHeike
Tom JahnWalter Rösler
Mehdi NebbouRashid
Hussi KutlucanHerr Wokalek
Oliver MarloHerr Hauser
Christian BlümelCharlie- Patrizia MorescoFrau Wokalek
Eva MannschottFrau Hufschmidt- Birgit FunkeBusfahrerin
Irina PotapenkoLarissa
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