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Wixxer, Der (2004)

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• The "old Wixxer" is played by 'Achim Menzel' . He was Oliver Kalkofe's favorite "victim" in his show "Kalkofes Mattscheibe" (1994) where he used to cynicaly comment on bad TV-productions.
  
  
• In the first casting scene at Blackwhite Castle Oliver Kalkofe can be seen playing an emprisoned woman in the background.
  
  
• The film is based on a 18-part radio play that Oliver Kalkofe together with Oliver Welke did in the 1990s during his time as a radio moderator.
  
  

• The character name Dubinski is a reference to former TV host Ingo Dubinski.
  
  
• Newspapers shown in the title sequence reporting on the Wixxer: The Times, Daily Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Time, The Sun, Wild und Hund, P.M., Bussi Bär, Weekly Telegraph, The Independent, Daily Mirror, The Islington Observer, The Islington Post, Coupé, Bravo, Cosmopolitan and Super Illu.
  
  
• According to Oliver Kalkofe the animation for the cockroach at the beginning cost 25.000 Euros.
  
  
• The original character name for the Earl of Cockwood was Earl of Fistfuck but the Bavarian Film Fund asked to change that.
  
  
• The alias names of Harry Smeerlap are all references to characters played by Klaus Kinski.
  
  
• Heinz Schenk was asked to play "Der Blaue Bock" in the N.S.Y.N.C. sequence but declined.
  
  
• Oliver Hirschbiegel visited the director and the editor of this film during the cutting process (he was cutting his film Untergang, Der (2004) in the editing room next door) and was shown some scenes - especially those of Butler Alfons Hatler.
  
  

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