Viktor Vogel Commercial Man
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Director Lars Kraume Cinematography Andreas Doub Country Germany | 6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Romance Duration Language German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 12 April 2001 (2001-04-12) Writer Lars Kraume, Thomas Schlesinger Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, World cinema Cast Alexander Scheer (Victor Vogel), Götz George (Edward Kaminsky), Chulpan Khamatova (Rosa Braun), Maria Schrader (Johanna von Schulenberg), Vadim Glowna (Werner Stahl), Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp (Günter Pflüger)Similar movies Sliding Doors , Renaissance Man , Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? , One Way , 14 Days to Life | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An advertising executive must choose between love or success while navigating through a cutthroat business.
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Viktor Vogel – Commercial Man is a 2001 German art comedy film released in 2001 in the US and other countries as Advertising Rules! Directed by Lars Kraume, the cast includes Alexander Scheer, Gotz George, and Chulpan Khamatova.
Edward Kaminsky, an aging ad man, wants a golden parachute from his agency; he must first land the Opel auto contract. Rosa, a youth with wealthy parents, wants to establish herself as an artist. The clumsy and enthusiastic Viktor, not quite honest, wants work. When he wanders into Kaminsky's meeting with Opel and says something about irony, the Opel director wants him in on the campaign. Then he steals an idea from Rosa that the Opel director loves. Before Rosa discovers he's expropriated her idea, Rosa and Viktor become lovers. Father-son feelings materialize between Kaminsky and Viktor. Can the impulsive Viktor hold it together before Rosa learns the truth and flies away?
Plot
During a meeting between Opel and the advertising agency Brainstorm, Viktor Vogel sneaks in and offers his views on how the agencys new campaign is boring and lacking in irony. This helps the already dissatisfied Opel people tell Brainstorm they need to come up with a new idea as they leave. After some discussion at Brainstorm the agency decides that they need to find Viktor, whom they threw out after the meeting, and hire him to work on the campaign. Eventually Viktor becomes the partner of Edward Kaminsky, a veteran ad man who is hoping to retire soon and they begin work on an idea that will keep Brainstorm alive through Opels money.
Meanwhile Viktor meets the artist Rosa and begins a relationship, albeit rocky at first. While at a party that Rosa has thrown, Viktor and Rosa work out an idea for a gallery exhibit where Rosa is in a shopping mart hunting (literally) for her groceries. Sometime later at a meeting with Opel, Viktor accidentally happens to blurt out the idea, which Opel loves, and they are told to begin work on the idea.
Now Viktor, torn between his work and his girlfriend, must decide what is most important to him. Edward tells him that all he has to do is pay her for the idea, but Viktor knows that for this artist the idea is more important than money. However, Rosas parents feel that they can butt into her life all the time because they give her an allowance and Viktor, seeing this as his opportunity to save himself from his mistake, tries to convince her that this is her opportunity to liberate herself from this cycle. With no exhibit Rosa is now forced to create something for the gallery that already has her booked and she ends up being turned into a dove as a magic act.
In an attempt to help out his new friend, Viktor, Kaminsky tries to get the agency to change from the hunting idea to something else, which inadvertently gets him let go from the firm. After this, Eddie hatches a plan which culminates with Viktor defecting from Brainstorm and stealing a client in the process. Viktor tries to patch things up with his girlfriend, but as she is still a dove we are left to our own imagination about how it will work out.
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References
Viktor Vogel – Commercial Man WikipediaViktor Vogel – Commercial Man IMDb Viktor Vogel – Commercial Man themoviedb.org