The Loneliness of the Crocodile (German: Die Einsamkeit der Krokodile) is a German satiric crime film directed and produced by Jobst Oetzmann, based on a novel by Dirk Kurbjuweit.
It was a German contribution at the Cannes Film Festival, and was awarded the Bayerischer Filmpreis.
[1] Günther, the strictly raised son of a village butcher, becomes an outcast (Außenseiter) because his crazy ideas challenge the local community.
Elias, who trains to be a journalist, becomes intrigued in investigating this strange story of a lost life, and through it finds himself.
It was the German contribution at the Cannes Film Festival, and was also presented at the Forum du Cinéma Européen in Strasbourg.