Absolute Giganten is a 1999 German comedy drama film written and directed by Sebastian Schipper, produced by Stefan Arndt and Tom Tykwer. Set in Hamburg, it depicts how a group of young Germans react to the prospect of one of them leaving forever, and involves drinking, V8 engines, and an extraordinary game of table football.

Absolute Giganten
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Directed bySebastian Schipper
Written bySebastian Schipper
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyFrank Griebe
Edited byAndrew Bird
Music byThe Notwist, Sophia and others
Distributed byX-Filme Creative Pool
Release date
  • 30 September 1999 (1999-09-30) (Germany)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

It was Schipper's first movie as a director. In the year 2000 the movie won the German Film Award in the category Outstanding Feature Film.

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The film was generally well-received by German critics. The American film critic Eric D. Snider wrote that the film "has the sort of world-weary, melancholy bleakness we've come to expect from that country, while at the same time infusing energy and vigor into filmmaking as an art form. This is a pitifully touching film, uplifting for its intrinsic beauty even while evoking sadness for the characters."[1]

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