Rossini – Or the Deadly Question of Who Slept With Whom
Filmscript
Published by Diogenes as Rossini oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief...
Original Title: Rossini oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief...
Filmscript - with an essay by Patrick Süskind. In spite of all their differences, the guests of the Italian restaurant Rossini have one thing in common: they are all singles who have made the restaurant their second home. They use it as a living room and office, for private and social arguments, as a forum for self-portrayal, and as a stage for their erotic comedies and tragedies. They are all, in some wondrous way, involved with one another: hopeless love, hate, jealousy and friendships between men which survive everything else... The tragicomic embroilments are made even more turbulent by the appearance of a young actress with the fairy tale name of Snow-white, and they culminate in the defeat and triumph of the protagonists.
Cinema, Contemporary Literature
304 pages
1997

978-3-257-22954-7
Helmut
Dietl
Helmut Dietl was born in 1944 in Bad Wiessee and grew up in Munich. His first TV film ›Munich Stories‹ (1975) was followed, inter alia, by ›Monaco Franze‹ (1983) and ›Kir Royal‹ (1986). His first cinematic film, ›Schtonk‹ (1992) was nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Oscar, and his second, ›Rossini‹ (1997), received the Ernst Lubitsch Prize and the German Film Prize 1997 in a range of categories, as well as several other awards. Helmut Dietl died on 30.03.2015 in Munich.
Photo: Archiv Diogenes Verlag
Patrick
Süskind

Patrick Süskind, born in Ambach on Lake Starnberg in 1949, studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence, making a living writing screenplays. His one-man play The Double Bass was published in 1984, his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer in 1985, the novella The Pigeon in 1987 and The Story of Mr Sommer with illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempé in 1991.

Photo: © Philipp Keel

Awards

1997

Bayrischer Filmpreis für Rossini oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief. Regiepreis für Helmut Dietl; Darstellerpreis für Heiner Lauterbach; Preis für die beste schauspielerische Nachwuchsleistung für Jan Josef Liefers

1997

Bundesfilmpreis ›Goldenes Filmband‹ für den besten deutschen Film für Rossini oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief. Weitere Auszeichnungen für die beste Regie (Helmut Dietl), beste Nebendarstellerin (Martina Gedeck) und den besten Schnitt (Inez Regnier).

1997

›Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis‹ für Rossini oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief

1996

›Drehbuchpreis des Bundesinnenministeriums‹ für Rossini oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief

Movie adaptations

1997
Rossini, Helmut Dietl
1997
Rossini, Helmut Dietl