Three friends from Hamburg spend one last night on the town before one of them leaves the city forever.
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| Frank Giering | ... | Floyd | |
| Florian Lukas | ... | Ricco | |
| Antoine Monot Jr. | ... | Walter | |
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Julia Hummer | ... | Telsa |
| Jochen Nickel | ... | Snake | |
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Albert Kitzl | ... | Elvis |
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Guido A. Schick | ... | Dulle |
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Silvana Bosi | ... | Walters Oma |
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Marcnesium | ... | Typ mit Rastalocken |
| Johannes Silberschneider | ... | Hans | |
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Barbara de Koy | ... | Irmgard |
| Gustav-Peter Wöhler | ... | Horst | |
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Michael Sideris | ... | Dieter (as Mischa Sideris) |
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Hannes Hellmann | ... | Klaus |
| Peter Franke | ... | Meister | |
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In the port town of Hamburg, Germany, Floyd decides that he's shipping out to South Africa and Singapore now that his two-year probation for an unspecified juvenile offense has been completed. When he shares the news with his devoted friends Chubby, a mechanic, and Ricco, a fast-food cook and would-be b-boy, they can't comprehend their thoughtful friend's willingness to trade camaraderie for a wider view of the world. Overcoming their anger and bewilderment, the guys decide to spend one last night with Floyd, but the problem, as always, is how to find some fun. A succession of fast-food restaurants, parking garages, and local watering holes chronicles the inherent boredom of life in the provinces. But a run-in with a convention of dragster-racing Elvis impersonators sends the boys and their friend Telsa Julia Hummer on a series of adventures that veers from the farcical to the almost-tragic. Written by Anonymous
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Floyd: The first thing that I can remember is when I got a sparkler from my mother on New Year's Eve. The sky was full of rockets and fireworks that exploded and sparked. That was loud. But I wasn't afraid. I just held my sparkler up to the dark sky... and shook it like crazy. I shook it so hard, so incredibly hard, as hard as I could. And even harder. Until I couldn't any more and on and on. Senseless and harder and harder. And I was small. And so was the sparkler. But I was part of the ...
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Written by Markus Acher, Michael Acher
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[last lines]Floyd: The first thing that I can remember is when I got a sparkler from my mother on New Year's Eve. The sky was full of rockets and fireworks that exploded and sparked. That was loud. But I wasn't afraid. I just held my sparkler up to the dark sky... and shook it like crazy. I shook it so hard, so incredibly hard, as hard as I could. And even harder. Until I couldn't any more and on and on. Senseless and harder and harder. And I was small. And so was the sparkler. But I was part of the ...
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When I first saw "Absolute Giganten" it instantly became my favourite. I just love this movie. It is wonderfully sad but at the same time it seems to keep a certain happiness that just moves you and makes you feel glad to be alive. Sebastian Schipper has made a beautiful but also very real film with wonderful actors and great music by The Notwist. Directors of the world do me a favour and give me more films like this one!