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Baby
Baby
Directed by	Philipp Stölzl
Written by	Wolfgang Kohlhaase; David Hamblyn;
Cinematography	Michael Mieke
Edited by	Sven Budelmann
Music by	Ingo L. Frenzel
Release dates	2 July 2002 (Filmfest München); 26 February 2004;
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Baby is a 2002 German drama film directed by Philipp Stölzl, starring Alice Dwyer, Lars Rudolph and Filip Peeters. It tells the tragic story of a father, his daughter and the father's best friend, after the wives of the two men have died in a car crash. The film was Stölzl's feature-film debut.

Cast

Alice Dwyer as Lilli
Lars Rudolph as Paul
Filip Peeters as Frank
Christian Grashof as Stiefel
Hamid Bundu as Tommy
Irina Platon as Lana
Mischa Hulshof as Johann
Fedja van Huêt as Polizist
Marc Prätsch as Wachmann
Illa Schöppe as Ramona

Release

The film premiered on 2 July 2002 at Filmfest München. It was released theatrically in Germany on 26 February 2004.^[1]

Reception

David Rooney of Variety wrote:

A suspenseful melodrama about an unorthodox family unit, Baby represents a slick but distancing feature debut for German commercials and musicvideo director Philipp Stolzl, who made clips for Rammstein, Faith No More, Garbage and Madonna, among others. Blighted by a script that fails to create even one engaging character with any evident emotional transition, the film aims for a droll, dark register but comes off as merely smug and cold.^[2]

References

^ "Baby". Filmportal.de (in German). Deutsches Filminstitut. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
^ Rooney, David (23 October 2002). "Review: 'Baby'". Variety. Retrieved 3 January 2016.