Give a research scientist a robot designed from her own preferences to fall for, and I'm Your Man, Maria Schrader's 2021 German comedy, spends three sharp weeks asking what that arrangement actually feels like from the inside.
What is I'm Your Man about?
Alma agrees to a three-week trial living alongside Tom, a humanoid companion built specifically to make her happy, in exchange for research funding she badly needs for her own work. Tom is programmed to be attentive, adaptable and almost unnervingly perceptive about what Alma wants, which is exactly the problem: he is designed to please, not to be a real person, and Alma keeps running into the gap between the two. Maria Schrader plays the setup for both comedy and genuine discomfort, letting Alma's professional skepticism about the technology collide with something closer to real feeling as the weeks go on. Dan Stevens plays Tom with a deliberately uncanny mix of charm and stiffness, never quite letting the audience forget what he is even as Alma starts to.
About the cast
Maren Eggert plays Alma, carrying the film's shifting mix of scientific detachment and reluctant attachment. Dan Stevens plays Tom, performing much of the role in German and calibrating Tom's warmth so it always reads as slightly manufactured. Sandra Hüller appears as a colleague of Alma's, adding another perspective on what the experiment is actually testing.
Context & significance
Maria Schrader wrote and directed the film, adapting it loosely from a short story, and shot much of it around Berlin's museums and research institutes, giving the science-driven premise a grounded, everyday backdrop rather than a glossy sci-fi look. The film played at major festivals and won recognition for Maren Eggert's performance, standing out for treating its premise with genuine emotional seriousness rather than pure gimmick.
Watching I'm Your Man on Ktime
I'm Your Man streams on K-Time with Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow every carefully calibrated exchange between Alma and Tom. The page is free to browse, and watching the film only requires a free K-Time account, part of a service built around Farsi-language access for viewers abroad.