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]
^Claudia Tieschky (9 June 2018). "Silent year for Plasberg and Co?". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 15 June 2018. showed first the remarkable adaptation of Michel Houellebecq's socio-romantic novel "Submission" with Edgar Selge in the lead role