| Screenplay: | Titus Selge |
| Director: | Titus Selge |
| Starring: | Edgar Selge |
| Music: | Daniel Regenberg |
| Country: | Germany |
| Language: | German |
| Producer: | Clemens Schaeffer |
| Editor: | Knut Hake |
| Cinematography: | Martin Farkas |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Company: | Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg |
Unterwerfung ("submission") is a 2018 German television drama film directed by Titus Selge and starring Edgar Selge. It is based on the 2015 novel Submission by Michel Houellebecq and a German stage adaptation of the novel.
The film was produced by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. The screenplay by Titus Selge is based on Michel Houellebecq's 2015 novel Submission and Karin Beier's stage monologue based on the novel. Edgar Selge who performed the monologue at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg also stars in the film.[1] The film combines conventional film scenes with excerpts from the monologue. The theatre scenes were recorded in July 2017 while principal photography for the rest of the film began on 10 October 2017, with scenes shot in Paris and Berlin.[2]
The film premiered on ARD on 6 June 2018.[3] [4]
The Süddeutsche Zeitung called the adaptation "remarkable."[5]