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  • 2005
  • PG
  • Paramount Classics
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2005
  • PG
  • Paramount Classics
  • 1 h 54 m

Summary Schultze has spent his whole life in a small town in Saxon-Anhalt near the river Saale. Schultze's life, divided between work and the pub, the allotment, folk music and fishing, is rudely interrupted when he and his mates Manfred and Jürgen are made redundant. As entropy sets in and maintaining the daily routine deteriorates into a farce...

Directed By: Michael Schorr

Written By: Michael Schorr

  • 2005
  • PG
  • Paramount Classics
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2005
  • PG
  • Paramount Classics
  • 1 h 54 m

Schultze Gets the Blues

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary Schultze has spent his whole life in a small town in Saxon-Anhalt near the river Saale. Schultze's life, divided between work and the pub, the allotment, folk music and fishing, is rudely interrupted when he and his mates Manfred and Jürgen are made redundant. As entropy sets in and maintaining the daily routine deteriorates into a farce...

Directed By: Michael Schorr

Written By: Michael Schorr

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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32% Mixed
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100
This deadpan ode to living life to its fullest could be the ultimate crowd-pleaser at this year's PIFF.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
83
It's the warmest, most generous portrait of American hospitality you've seen from a European movie in some time.
By Sean Axmaker FULL REVIEW
75
Like the blues, you feel it first, and think of the meaning later.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
70
A quietly celebratory film about music and human kindness.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
70
Small but charming film.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
50
Schultze has a spare style, deliberately slow pace, and so little dialogue that to say it's in German with English subtitles seems to be stretching the truth.
By Jean Oppenheimer FULL REVIEW
50
It's a good thing the movie has so little dialogue, because when it talks, the words dilute its almost surreal visual spell, and the fructose turns to saccharine.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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4 Ratings
38% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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38% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Production Company Filmkombinat, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
Release Date Feb 18, 2005
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline It's never too late to re-tune your soul
Website http://www.schultzegetstheblues.de/
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Awards

Stockholm Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Gijón International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
German Film Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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