In the center of Hamburg, the discovery of an unexploded bomb from the Second World War not only leads to a far-reaching evacuation, but also to an interpersonal state of emergency.
Acting
Ratte-Polle and Jones crackle with unspoken history.
Direction
Polte turns evacuation into psychological pressure cooker.
Writing
Bomb as metaphor that actually earns its weight.
Director
Kerstin Polte
Anne Ratte-Polle
Lane Petersen
Haley Louise Jones
Ava Shabani
Bernhard Schütz
Otto Bismarck
Claudia Michelsen
Hanne Bismarck
Daniel Sträßer
Ben Glaser
Karl Markovics
Viktor Knigge
Lukas von Horbatschewsky
William Herbst
Barbara Nüsse
Margit Petersen
Thelma Buabeng
Daniela Reiter
Enrique Fiß
Philipp
Jing Xiang
Conny Zhang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hamburg still unearths 2,000+ WWII bombs annually; this film weaponizes that mundane terror into social commentary.
Polte deliberately cast Austrian Markovics as the nostalgic patriarch to complicate German-Austrian memory politics around shared Nazi history.
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