LatinoBuzz: ‘Guten Tag, Ramón’ Reached 1,150,000 Admissions with 210 Screens in Mexico

20th Century Fox released Jorge Ramírez Suárez’s latest film “Guten Tag, Ramón” in Mexico
on August 21
and became season’s surprise hit. The warmhearted drama-comedy was also for 3 weeks in a raw 2nd place in screen average only behind “Hercules” (first week) and then “Lucy” (on its second
and third week). The film is running its 5th week and became a ‘sleeper’, keeping 210 screens so far. Admissions today passed 1,150,000

“Guten Tag, Ramón”
tells the story of Ramón (Kristyan Ferrer), a young man from a small northern Mexican town that has tried unsuccessfully five times to cross the U.S. border. Back home he
refuses to become a criminal. He decides instead to look for a friend’s aunt in Germany. He travels to Germany and he never finds the aunt. He survives in
the streets until he meets Ruth (Ingeborg Schöner), a retired and lonely woman. Beyond language barriers and prejudices they develop an amazing friendship.

“Guten Tag, Ramón”
is a Beanca Films’s co-production with Germany’s MPN Cologne Film 3 (MedienParks) in association with

Fox International Productions. It is written, directed and produced by Mexican-German helmer Jorge Ramírez-Suárez and co-produced by Thierry Potok and Jorge Eduardo Ramírez. Starring Kristyan Ferrer, Ingeborg Schöner, Héctor Kotsifakis, Arcelia Ramírez, Adriana Barraza. The film was shot in Wiesbaden and
Frankfurt in Germany and Durango, Mexico.

The film will open in several territories in South and Central America in October. The release in Germany and the U.S. is set on January 22, 2015 also by
20th Century Fox. Other territories will follow.