Lulu and Jimi

2009 German film
  • February 2009 (2009-02)
CountriesGermany
FranceLanguagesEnglish
German

Lulu and Jimi is a 2009 drama film directed by Oskar Roehler. It is about the relationship between Lulu, a rich German girl and Jimi, a black man, and takes place in 1950s Germany.

Plot

Lulu, a well-off German girl, falls in love with Jimi, the owner of a bumper cars stall. The problem is that he is black and her family doesn't approve of him, especially her mother (Katrin Sass). Lulu doesn't want the ridiculous boy her mother has found for her. Lulu and Jimi will do anything to be finally together.

Cast

  • Jennifer Decker as Lulu
  • Ray Fearon as Jimi
  • Katrin Sass as Gertrud, Lulu's mother
  • Rolf Zacher as Daddy Cool and Lulu's father
  • Udo Kier as Schulz, the chofer
  • Bastian Pastewka as Ernst
  • Ulrich Thomsen as Harry Hass
  • Alexander Meyer as Lulu's brother
  • Hans Michael Rehberg as Von Oppeln

Music

Ray Fearon performs "Stand by me", the principal song in the movie.

Festivals

It was projected in the Sundance Festival and in the Gijón Film Festival.

References

External links

  • Lulu and Jimi at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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Films directed by Oskar Roehler
  • No Place to Go (2000)
  • Angst (2003)
  • Agnes and His Brothers (2004)
  • Atomised (2006)
  • Lulu and Jimi (2009)
  • Jew Suss: Rise and Fall (2010)
  • Sources of Life (2013)
  • Herrliche Zeiten (2018)
  • Enfant Terrible (2020)
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