Toni Ricardelli is a professional killer and leads a pleasant life. He has just murdered the former Mafioso Enrico Puzzo for the Mafia so that he can no longer publish his announced memoirs. Toni is in the process of removing the author's corpse when Julia Steffens, a beautiful publishing clerk, enters the hotel room. Toni introduces himself as a professional killer and freely admits to having just killed Enrico Puzzo, which Julia doesn't believe for a moment. Instead, she thinks Ricardelli is Puzzo. After denying this at first, he plays the game, on the one hand to collect the high commission for the book, but mainly to stay close to Julia, to whom Toni feels drawn from the first moment. So Ricardelli travels with Julia to Berlin, where the new book is already eagerly awaited. Since Ricardelli doesn't have a book, of course, he turns to his old friend Pepe, who now has the task of writing the book under time pressure. Meanwhile, the mafia boss Salvatore Marino learns that Puzzo is still alive and sends out a whole horde of killers to hunt him down. So Ricardelli has to master some tricky situations in the role of Enrico Puzzo before he can finally win over his Julia. Bud Spencer plays in this romantic comedy the blind Pepe, a friend of Toni Ricardelli, who supplies Toni with orders and who is finally asked by Toni to finish the book of Enrico Puzzo. He has one funny scenes, but it's clearly only a supporting role. With Franco Nero, another star of Italian cinema can be seen in a supporting role. Nero plays the former mafioso Enrico Puzzo, who causes so much trouble with his book and is therefore killed by the main character Toni Riccardelli. Django actor Franco Nero already played alongside Bud Spencer in 1969 in The 5th Day of Peace ("God with us"). For the cinema launch of the film, the distributor Warner Germany created its own internet presence (www.mordistmeingeschaeftliebling.de). Besides trailers and pictures there was also the possibility to download a small mobile game about the movie. Meanwhile the homepage has been switched off and the game is no longer available. In the week before the cinema premiere Bud Spencer was in Germany and visited Stefan Raab's TV show TV Total. Together with leading actress Nora Tschirner, he presented the film in the show. According to screenwriter and director Sebastian Niemann, there were already plenty of ideas for a possible sequel. But the plans were rejected because the movie didn't meet the expectations in the cinemas. Thanks to a good home cinema evaluation, the film ended up in the profit zone. The soundtrack of the film was written by the German film composer Egon Riedel. The soundtrack was complemented by seven songs of the American singer and actor Dean Martin. The soundtrack, including the Dean Martin songs, was released on CD for the cinema release. "Killing is my business, honey" is the only Spencer/Hill film to have a radio play released. The narrator for the radio play is Rick Kavanian. The dialogues consist of original dialogues from the film. It took 45 days of filming to create this comedy. The film was shot from 15 October to 16 December 2007 in Berlin and surroundings and in Italy. The total budget of the production was 6.2 million euros. The cinema launch was originally announced for 25 December 2008, but was then postponed to 26 February 2009. The film celebrated its world premiere one week earlier, on 19 February 2009 in Berlin.

Release Dates:

19.02.2009 Germany Weltpremiere in Berlin 26.02.2009 Germany Premiere 415.447 Besucher 21.04.2010 Italy Pay-TV-Premiere Sky Cinema 1 02.05.2010 Germany Pay-TV-Premiere Sky Cinema 29.01.2012 Austria Free-TV-Premiere Puls 4 01.05.2012 Germany Free-TV-Premiere Sat 1

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