When backpacker millennials Benjamin, Judith and Katharina travel to Cuba to find Katharina’s missing brother Wanja, they become more and more entrapped within a maze of delusions, sincere feelings and sexual desires: It begins as an exciting adventure and turns into a passionate love triangle.
Cinematography
Cuba shot as seductive trap, not postcard
Acting
Gierszał's Wanja: charming, damaged, possibly dangerous
Direction
Blümner lets discomfort simmer without exploitation
Director
Bettina Blümner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The manatee motif references Cuban folklore of the 'mermaid'—blurring human/animal, tourist/local, seen/desired.
Blümner deliberately cast Polish actor Gierszał to complicate German-Cuban dynamics with European outsiderness.
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