Detlev Buck takes on Thomas Mann's late novel: The result is a humorous adaptation that is not necessarily gripping.
Berlin – How do you get ahead in society? How all the way to the top? How do you blind, how do you deceive those around you? Questions like these drive the story in Detlev Buck's adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel “Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull”.
Numerous well-known actors appear in the two-hour tour: Maria Furtwängler, Jannis Niewöhner and Martin Wuttke. Liv Lisa Fries is also there. From Buck we know directorial works such as “Knallhart”, “Wuff”, “Bibi & Tina”. Buck had prominent help with this film adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel: The script was created with the help of the German-Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann (“Tyll”).
Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull, Germany 2021, 114 min., FSK from 12, by Detlev Buck, with Jannis Niewöhner, David Kross, Liv Lisa Fries dpa
