Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Tom Schilling | ... | Niko Fischer | |
Katharina Schüttler | ... | Elli | |
Justus von Dohnányi | ... | Karl Speckenbach | |
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Andreas Schröders | ... | Psychologe |
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Katharina Hauck | ... | Café-Shop Angestellte |
Marc Hosemann | ... | Matze | |
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Friederike Kempter | ... | Julika Hoffmann |
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Arnd Klawitter | ... | Phillip Rauch |
Inga Birkenfeld | ... | Hanna | |
Ulrich Noethen | ... | Walter Fischer | |
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Leander Modersohn | ... | Jörg Schneider |
Martin Brambach | ... | Kontrolleur Jörg | |
Rolf Peter Kahl | ... | Kontrolleur Stefan (as RP Kahl) | |
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Lis Böttner | ... | Frau Baumann |
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Theo Trebs | ... | Marcel |
This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin. The film deals with the desire to participate in life and the difficulty to find one's place. Written by Wouter van der Sluis
As a German living abroad for the past 12 years, it's been a surprising pleasure to see, back in Berlin, this little jewel of a movie. Step by step the young guy's everyday-life situations pull you in, develop a light but melancholic atmosphere in which great acting, a pensive and funny script, music that reminds the best of Miles Davis and awesome black-and-white camera-work form a wonderful whole of a movie. If you see, towards the end, average shots of Berlin turned into looking poetic you know the film has found its tone just on the right note.
Beautiful - I hope this (first!) film didn't only accidentally turn out so well. You want to wish the director, all actors and his crew the very best !