Die geschützten Männer

Original Title Die geschützten Männer
International Title Protected Men
Release Date 2025-Sep-16
HD/SD HD
Original Languages German
Country of Origin Germany
Subs German, French
Year 2024
Runtime 104 minutes
FSK FSK 12
Genre Comedy, Satire, Drama
Director Irene von Alberti
Cast Britta Hammelstein, Mavie Hörbiger, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid, Bibiana Beglau, Godehard Giese, Julika Jenkins
Description GER

„Bissige Politsatire über Macht, Unterdrückung und Geschlechterrollen. Ökologie, Gleichstellung und Nachhaltigkeit – als Anita und Sarah eine neue Frauenpartei gründen, verfolgen sie hohe politische Ziele. Eher niedere Absichten prägen hingegen die Männer, die mit einem neuartigen Virus infiziert sind. Die Folgen: Sexbesessenheit, Übergriffe und Tod. Eilig wird ein Impfstoff erforscht. Doch sollte das männliche Geschlecht überhaupt gerettet werden?“

Description EN

Germany, shortly before elections. Anita Martinelli and Sarah Bedford are pursuing grand political goals with their newly founded women’s party FEM. They are campaigning for a new system in which ecology, equality and sustainability have top priority. Yet during the election campaign, a new kind of disease breaks out, infecting only men. Differences between the sexes long believed to have been overcome now shake the very foundations of the society. When the chancellor falls victim to the virus, women take over the government. Anita Martinelli’s husband Ralph, an experienced virologist, is to develop a vaccine against the virus with his team in a remote, well-guarded forest laboratory. While the self-proclaimed chancellor Bedford secretly boycotts the work on the vaccine, Anita Martinelli and a group of other women decide to stop the repressive government’s plans. A counter-movement forms, fueled by a strong utopian desire for a better society. They rescue Ralph Martinelli and the other “protected men” in a spectacular escape from the lab and bring him and the serum to safety. The last surviving men are successfully vaccinated and the man-hating chancellor is toppled. With the remaining men, the women start over, endeavoring to create a better future.

IMBD https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32843481/