A young man gets caught up in a conflict between his friends, a skinhead and a gay anarchist.
Acting
Sascha Backhaus's volatile, heartbreaking lead performance.
Direction
Reding brothers' unflinching documentary-adjacent realism.
Production
Authentic Berlin squatter scene locations, no sets.
Director
Ben Reding
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual Berlin skinhead and anarchist squats with non-professional locals; the Reding brothers spent two years embedded in these subcultures before filming.
Sascha Backhaus was a discovered street kid with no acting training—his raw performance was partly genuine trauma resurfacing, which the directors deliberately provoked.
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