Do Fish Do It?

Name: Fickende Fische
Genre: Drama
Released: 2002-08-15
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Tino Mewes, Sophie Rogall, Hans-Martin Stier

Original title: Fickende Fische

2002
1h 44m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

Drama

"What does your paradise look like, then?" - "Dark. Quiet. Wet. And full of fish." Jan likes Shakespeare, water and fish. Nina likes roller-skates, cars and brightly dyed hair. Jan loves Nin... Read all"What does your paradise look like, then?" - "Dark. Quiet. Wet. And full of fish." Jan likes Shakespeare, water and fish. Nina likes roller-skates, cars and brightly dyed hair. Jan loves Nina. Nina loves Jan, but ... Do Fish Do It? is a film about first love, the problems of grow... Read all"What does your paradise look like, then?" - "Dark. Quiet. Wet. And full of fish." Jan likes Shakespeare, water and fish. Nina likes roller-skates, cars and brightly dyed hair. Jan loves Nina. Nina loves Jan, but ... Do Fish Do It? is a film about first love, the problems of growing up, the vital question if fish have sex and a threat this love is exposed to. 16-year ... Read all

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 5 nominations

Photos45

+ 39

More like this

7.4

The Edukators

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Julia Dietze's debut.

Alternate versions
SPOILER: The German theatrical version has a different ending by request of the distributor: The falling car dissolves against the sky instead of crushing into the water. The latter can be seen on the DVD and is the ending as intended by the director.

Connections
Referenced in Cowgirl (2004)

Soundtracks
COMFORT TO THE MOON
Written by S. Haeusler, K. Hackenberger
Performed By Cam-era

User reviews3

Review

Featured review

9/10

very intimate!

Almut Getto created something only a few filmmakers are able to - an intimate portrait of young people falling in love for the first time. Although it all happens with one of the protagonists being HIV-positive, this is not another melodramatic movie about AIDS. No! "Fickende Fische" is first and above all a love story among two 16 year olds with all the normal problems, and AIDS being "just" one of them. Getto and her young actors perfectly walk the narrow line between intimate feelings and unrelenting fate - and manage to make the viewer an intimate part of this relationship.

Just as if we were one of the protagonists ourselves we feel our heart beat as they touch almost unknowingly for the first time; and feel with them each and every step of the following relationship.

"Fickende Fische" is a small movie. One of those that ask the audience to become a 16 year old boy or girl and fall in love again - and to deal with AIDS not in an AIDS-movie, but tragically and comically at the same time in a little big love story.