Romeos (film)

2011 film by Sabine Bernardi

Janna Velber
Kristina Löbbert

Starring

Rick Okon
Maximilian Befort
Liv Lisa Fries
Felix Brocke
Silke Geertz
Gilles Tschudi
Sigrid Burkholder
Johannes Schwab
Tessa Lukat
Ben Gageik
Ralf Rotterdam

CinematographyMoritz SchultheißEdited byRenata Salazar-IvancanMusic byRoland Appel

Production
companies

Boogiefilm
ZDF

Distributed byPro-Fun Media

Release dates

11 February 2011 (2011-02-11) (Berlin)
8 December 2011 (2011-12-08) (Germany)

Running time

94 minutesCountryGermanyLanguages

German
English
Italian

Box office$26,324^[1]

Romeos is a 2011 German romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sabine Bernardi [de]. It was released theatrically in Germany on 8 December 2011.^[2]^[3] Prior to its release, the film's screenplay won the Best Treatment Cologne Screenplay Prize in 2007.^[4]

Premise

Lukas is a 20-year-old gay trans man in the midst of his transition. After joining the Cologne gay scene, Lukas meets an attractive bad boy, a cisgender gay man named Fabio, and an attraction develops between the two men. Lukas is faced with the choice of revealing his identity to Fabio and risking losing everything.

Cast

Rick Okon [de] as Lukas
Maximilian Befort [de] as Fabio
Liv Lisa Fries as Ine
Felix Brocke [de] as Sven
Silke Geertz [de] as Annette
Gilles Tschudi as Herr Boeken
Sigrid Burkholder [de] as Lukas' mother
Johannes Schwab as Lukas' father
Tessa Lukat as Leila
Julia Schäfle [de] as Blondie
Ben Gageik [de] as Svens Freund
Ralf Rotterdam as Cassy Carrington

References

^ "Romeos (2011)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
^ "Romeos". German Films Service + Marketing. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
^ "Romeos Summary". Outfest. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
^ "Films and Events – Romeos". Seattle International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2012.