Directed by:
Daniel BrühlScreenplay:
Daniel KehlmannCinematography:
Jens HarantCast:
Daniel Brühl, Peter Kurth, Rike Eckermann, Aenne Schwarz, Gode Benedix, Vicky Krieps, Justine Hirschfeld, Steffen Scheumann, Mex Schlüpfer, Arne Duppler (more)VOD (1)
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Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. When this summer day is over, nothing will ever be the same again. Only Daniel doesn’t know that yet. The protagonist of this tragicomic scenario is as unsuspecting as he is accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and nanny has the children under control. Everything is tip-top, bilingual and ready for him to jet off to an audition where a role in a superhero film awaits the celebrated German-Spanish actor. Popping into the bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. As transpires by the minute, Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification’s losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target. Brühl’s directorial debut is spot-on. Based on an idea by the director and written by Daniel Kehlmann, the script combines razor-sharp dialogue with oddball bar-room banter. Pitting global versus local, and hand-luggage-only travel versus eavesdropping from the courtyard window, the film celebrates this intimate corner-pub chamber piece as if it were a genre of its own. The character psychology is perfect and the verbal spats never-ending. Peter Kurth is especially nasty as Bruno, and Daniel Brühl is deliciously self-deprecating. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Daniel Brühl
Spain
Best movies:
Rush (2013)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Peter Kurth
East Germany
Best movies:
A Friend of Mine (2006)
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Wolfsburg (2003)
Rike Eckermann
East Germany
Best movies:
The Captain (2017)
Die Täter - Heute ist nicht alle Tage (2016) (TV movie)
West (2013)
Aenne Schwarz
West Germany
Best movies:
Time You Change (2010)
Next Door (2021)
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
Gode Benedix
Best movies:
Ku'damm 59 (2018) (series)
The Tunnel (2001)
Life Is All You Get (1997)
Vicky Krieps
Luxembourg
Best movies:
Colonia (2015)
3 Days in Quiberon (2018)
House of Boys (2009)
Justine Hirschfeld
Best movies:
Aenne Burda - Die Wirtschaftswunderfrau (2018) (TV movie)
Next Door (2021)
Sapphire Blue (2014)
Steffen Scheumann
Best movies:
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
Sun Alley (1999)
Mex Schlüpfer
Best movies:
Great Freedom (2021)
Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (2017) (student film)
Next Door (2021)
Arne Duppler
West Germany
Best movies:
Next Door (2021)
Johanna Polley
Best movies:
The Billion Dollar Code (2021) (series)
I Was, I Am, I Will Be (2019)
Once Upon a Time in Indian Country (2017)
Nils Dörgeloh
West Germany
Nils Brunkhorst
West Germany
Best movies:
Lammbock - Alles in Handarbeit (2001)
Next Door (2021)
Windstorm: The Great Hurricane (2021)
Ole Hermann
Best movies:
Next Door (2021)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Kreuzfahrt ins Glück (2007) (series)
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Austria
Best movies:
Persian Lessons (2020)
The Palace (2021) (series)
The Royal Game (2021)