Baby is a 2002 German drama film directed by Philipp Stölzl, starring Alice Dwyer, Lars Rudolph and Filip Peeters. It tells the tragic story of a father, his daughter and the father's best friend, after the wives of the two men have died in a car crash. The film was Stölzl's feature-film debut.
Cast Alice Dwyer as Lilli Lars Rudolph as Paul Filip Peeters as Frank Christian Grashof as Stiefel Hamid Bundu as Tommy Irina Platon as Lana Mischa Hulshof as Johann Fedja van Huêt as Polizist Marc Prätsch as Wachmann Illa Schöppe as Ramona
Release The film premiered on 2 July 2002 at Filmfest München. It was released theatrically in Germany on 26 February 2004.
Reception David Rooney of Variety wrote: A suspenseful melodrama about an unorthodox family unit, Baby represents a slick but distancing feature debut for German commercials and musicvideo director Philipp Stolzl, who made clips for Rammstein, Faith No More, Garbage and Madonna, among others. Blighted by a script that fails to create even one engaging character with any evident emotional transition, the film aims for a droll, dark register but comes off as merely smug and cold.
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