''Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit'' (English title – ''Love Scenes from Planet Earth'') is a 1998 German

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film. It earned the director

Marc Rothemund Marc Rothemund (born 26 August 1968) is a German film director. He is the son of the film director Sigi Rothemund and the brother of the actress Nina Rothemund. He began his career as an assistant for his father and then began to direct episodes ...

Bavarian Film Award The Bavarian Film Awards (german: Bayerischer Filmpreis) have been awarded annually since 1979 by the states of Germany, state government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the Deutscher Filmp ...

for "Best Young Director". It was the second highest grossing domestic film in Germany in 1998. The film is a comedy centering on the lives of eight Germans who long for sexual excitement.

Cast

Christoph Waltz Christoph Waltz (; born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian-German actor. Since 2009 he has been primarily active in the United States. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two British Academy Film Awards and two Sc ...

Ann-Kathrin Kramer Ann-Kathrin Kramer (born 4 April 1966) is a German actress and writer. Biography Kramer was born and educated in Wuppertal but left school at the age of sixteen.''Setzen, Sechs! - Schulgeschichten aus Deutschland (3/3). Experiment Schule''. Docu ...

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Michaela May Michaela (Hebrew מיכאלה) is a female given name. It is a female form of the Hebrew name Michael (מִיכָאֵל), which means "Who is like God". As of 2008, it was 357th in rank for newborn girls in the United States, and 325th in England ...

Anica Dobra Anica Dobra ( sr-Cyrl, Аница Добра; born June 3, 1963) is a Serbian film and theatre actress. Early life and education Dobra was born on June 3, 1963, in Belgrade, where she completed primary education before moving to Frankfurt on M ...

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Oliver Korittke Oliver Korittke (born 6 April 1968) is a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1972. In ''Wilsberg ''Wilsberg'' is a German TV series based on novels about the fictional private detective Georg Wilsberg. A first TV episo ...

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Markus Knüfken Markus Knüfken (born 18 August 1965) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than eighty films since 1978. Selected filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Knufken, Markus 1965 births Living people Actors from ...

Cosma Shiva Hagen Cosma Shiva Hagen () is a German-American actress and voice actress. Although she speaks English, her acting roles have been largely confined to German-language films and television productions. She also starred in an Irish film called ''Shor ...

Tobias Schenke Tobias Schenke (27 March 1981) is a German actor most famous for playing the character of Florian Thomas in '' Ants in the Pants'' and ' and the older Jürgen Bartsch in '' The Child I Never Was''. In 2002, he was a lead actor in Alexander Pfe ...

Gudrun Landgrebe Gudrun Landgrebe (; born 20 June 1950) is a German actress. Landgrebe was born in Göttingen, grew up in Bochum, and attended theatre school in Cologne from 1968 until 1971. In 1971 she made her debut at Stadttheater Bielefeld. She also appea ...

* Bernd Tauber *Jakob von Moers *Frederic Welter

Soundtrack

Scatman John John Paul Larkin (March 13, 1942 – December 3, 1999), known professionally as Scatman John, was an American musician. A prolific jazz pianist and vocalist for several decades, he rose to prominence during the 1990s through his fusion of scat s ...

- Scatmambo (Patricia) # Talk Of The Town - Te Quiero Mambo #

Willy DeVille Willy DeVille (born William Paul Borsey Jr.; August 25, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American singer and songwriter. During his thirty-five-year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own, DeVille created orig ...

- Demasiado Corazon #

Gipsy Kings Gipsy Kings are a group of flamenco, salsa, and pop musicians from Arles and Montpellier in southern France, who perform mostly in Catalan but also mix in Spanish with southern French dialects. Although the group members were born in France, t ...

- Volare 3:40 #

Viktor Lazlo The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * Victor (1951 film), ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * Victor (1993 film), ...

- Amores (Besame Mucho) # Compay Segundo - Chan Chan # Afro-Cuban All Stars - Amor Verdadero #

Dean Martin Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool". M ...

- That's Amore # Jackeline Castellanos & Los Tropicales - Tu Libertad # D.A. Niel - Guarachando # Princessa - Baila Al Ritmo # Angelo Garcia - Carino Presumido # Compay Segundo - El Camison De Pepa # Rubén González - Tumbao #

Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan (; born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García; born 1 September 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, actress, and businesswoman. Estefan is a seven-time Grammy Award winner, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and has been ...

- Oye Mi Canto # Sierra Maestra - Tibiri Tabara # Dos Amigos - Mambo #

Louis Prima Louis Leo Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he forme ...

- Buona Sera # Cherie - Charlie's Blues # Reinhard Besser - Score Trilogy The soundtrack peaked on the German album charts at No. 94.

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* 1998 films 1998 romantic comedy films German romantic comedy films 1990s German-language films Films directed by Marc Rothemund 1990s German films {{1990s-Germany-film-stub