The Hollywood Reporter announces that successful German director Jochen Alexander Freydank will give his feature film debut adapting the romantic comedy best-seller “Macho Man” for Walt Disney Germany. It’s the story of a sensitive German guy, who tries to be a macho to land a sexy Turkish girl. Disney Germany will release the local-language comedy in 2013.
Jochen Alexander Freydank worked continuously in Germany, most recently he directed the episode “Heimatfront” for the classic German TV-Series “Tatort”. The East-Berlinborn director won an Academy Award in 2009 for his film “Toyland”
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