Film

Ein brauchbarer Mann

1989 · 1h 39m · Drama

Young Uli Merkel is an engineer and inventor. He has a wife and child and is primarily interested in his career. One day, he receives a strange assignment from general manager Zeim. He is to track down the former chief designer Heiner Rudolf in order to take his inventions out of his pocket. Rudolf, ridiculed at the time for his forward-looking work, had taken all his documents with him when he left. Now they are needed to fulfill an important export order. In his search for Rudolf, Uli begins to realize that he, the boy, is being used. He finally finds Rudolf as a gravedigger on the island of Rügen. The encounter reinforces Uli's doubts about the moral integrity of his mission. He gets out and stays there, while Rudolf accepts an offer from the general manager.

Tobias Langhoff

Uli Merkel

Rolf Hoppe

Heiner Rudolf

Otto Mellies

Gerhard Zeim

Kirsten Block

Ilona Merkel

Kurt Böwe

Fischer Dröse

Anne Kasprik

Kerstin Rudolf

Karin Ugowski

Irina Weimann

Fred Delmare

Horst Rehberg

Thomas Rühmann

Wolf-Dieter Lingk

Horst Weinheimer

Peter Bause

Hans-Werner Honert

• Hans-Werner HonertDirector · Writer
• Helmut GrewaldWriter
• Brigitte KoppeEditor

Release date

October 18, 1989

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Drama