Agnes and His Brothers

2004 film

Martin Weiß [de]
Moritz Bleibtreu
Herbert Knaup
Katja Riemann
Tom Schilling

CinematographyCarl-Friedrich KoschnickEdited by

Juliane Lorenz
Simone Hofmann

Music byMartin TodsharowDistributed byX Filme Creativ Pool GmbH

Release date

14 October 2004 (2004-10-14)

Germany

Running time

115 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

Agnes and His Brothers (German: Agnes und seine Brüder) is a 2004 film directed by Oskar Roehler.

Plot

Three very different siblings: Hans-Jörg, a librarian who is a sex addict; Werner, a politician in a troubled marriage with a son who enjoys discrediting his father; Martin, who is now Agnes after having a gender-reassignment operation. Agnes works as a dancer and is suffering from unrequited love.

Cast

Martin Weiß [de] as Agnes Tschirner
Moritz Bleibtreu as Hans-Jörg Tschirner
Herbert Knaup as Werner Tschirner
Katja Riemann as Signe
Tom Schilling as Ralf
Suzan Anbeh as Desiree
Vadim Glowna as Günther
Margit Carstensen as Roxy
Lee Daniels as Henry
Marie Zielcke as Nadine
Oliver Korittke as Rudi
Martin Semmelrogge as Manni Moneto
Martin Feifel as Hannes
Sven Martinek as Jürgen
Til Schweiger as Freund in Bibliothek

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 40% of 20 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.1/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 46 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[1]