Now screening in certain areas of the United States, Toni Erdmann has earned and been nominated for numerous awards, which includes winning five European Film Awards, as well as being nominated for a BAFTA and Golden Globe.
In order to get close to her, Winfried creates a new alter-ego: Toni Erdmann, who becomes a life coach for Ines’ CEO.
Later this month, it will go up against Land of Mine, A Man Called Ove, The Salesman and Tanna in this year’s Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film category.
First shown at least year’s Cannes Film Festival and later released in Germany last July, Toni Erdmann followed an older man named Winfried Conradi, who has a penchant for practical jokes and creating weird alternate personas, trying to reconnect with his daughter, Ines, who has moved to Bucharest, Romania to pursue a business consulting career.