Diary of an Uber driver
Written by: Georg Lippert
Director: Julian Pörksen
Producers: Amir Hamz, Christian Springer, Fahri Yardim
Cast: Kostja Ullmann, Claudia Eisinger, Timur Bartels, Marie Hacke, Fahri Yardim, Edin Hasanović, Susanne Wolff
Commissioned by Joyn
Free-TV release on ZDFneo
Ben is in his mid-thirties and has hit rock bottom several times in life. Now he is working as an Uber driver which – instead of giving him peace of mind – only adds his passengers' issues to his own. The people who get into his car do not only vary in their lifestyles and backgrounds but also in the moving and ludicrous stories they share with Ben and the way they manage to regularly drag him right into their mess. On a side note, Ben is a father-to-be and does not want to accept the fact that his child’s fascinating mother, Nadja, is just not interested in him…