The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore.
Acting
Giering's Floyd somehow makes doing nothing magnetic.
Cinematography
Concrete Hamburg never looked this beautifully hopeless.
Director
Sebastian Schipper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 1990s 'Berlin School' precursor movement, though Schipper later went more commercial with Victoria.
The kicker table scenes were largely improvised; cast bonded over actual table football tournaments during production.
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