Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Frédéric Andrau | ... | Fögi |
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Vincent Branchet | ... | Beni |
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Urs Peter Halter | ... | Töbe |
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Martin Schenkel | ... | Ritch |
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Jean-Pierre von Dach | ... | Wäde |
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Jessica Früh | ... | La mère de Beni / Beni's mother |
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Gilles Tschudi | ... | Wirsling |
Sebastian Krähenbühl | ... | Reto | |
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Bettina Schulz | ... | Amie de Titch / Ritch's Girlfriend #1 |
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Jaqueline Brutsche | ... | Amie de Ritch / Ritch's girlfriend #2 |
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Ulrich Bodamer | ... | Schäfer |
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Mirjam Hoffmann | ... | Daniela |
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Joseph Schätti | ... | Tiger |
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Michel Weder | ... | Le vieil homme / Old man |
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Franck Rainault | ... | Le Médecin / Ambulance doctor |
Fifteen-year-old Beni falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, Beni is willing to follow him where ever he takes him. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into his addiction. Written by Lukas Fichtinger <liderc@gmx.at>
Outstanding acting, great casting, and really tight direction work together to make an unsparingly tragic plot both utterly believable and inexplicably hopeful.
Dark, sexy and very disturbing, the film's central theme is of love: though it is used, abused, warped and betrayed, it retains a strange and constant purity throughout, even up to the central character's almost shocking conclusion at the end. There is no question of bestowing any redemptive power on love, since this is a film of unflinching reality, but love's ability to provide sense to an existence otherwise bereft of meaning is shown to the full. There are few films that try to do this. Even fewer succeed, but this is one of them.