She filmed a stranger's life until fantasy bled into reality.
The caretaker Lana shares a small apartment with her mother who needs care. In order to escape from her difficult everyday life, she observes a young woman in the opposite block of flats through a video camera and builds up an intimate relationship with her in her imagination. When Lana sees her new friend's happiness threatened, she leaves the role of the silent observer and intervenes in the events. Two opposite prefabricated buildings, three women, three generations, a video camera. The Story of an Obsession.
Direction
Von Heiseler turns tower blocks into psychological pressure cookers.
Cinematography
The 153-meter gap between buildings feels like intimacy and prison.
Acting
Caspar's stillness masks volcanic desperation.
Director
Anton von Heiseler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title refers to the exact distance between East German Plattenbau towers—architecture designed for communal living that instead bred isolation.
Emilia von Heiseler is the director's daughter; the family connection mirrors the film's uneasy mother-daughter caretaking dynamics.
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