A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.
Acting
Koffler's silent panic—you can feel him physically resisting himself.
Direction
Lacant turns running into desperate, wordless longing.
Cinematography
Those grey German skies = perfect visual metaphor for Marc's suffocation.
Director
Stephan Lacant
Hanno Koffler
Marc Borgmann
Max Riemelt
Kay Engel
Katharina Schüttler
Bettina Bischoff
Maren Kroymann
Inge Borgmann
Luis Lamprecht
Wolfgang Borgmann
Attila Borlan
Werner Brandt
Oliver Bröcker
Frank Richter
Shenja Lacher
Gregor Limpinski
Stephanie Schönfeld
Claudia Richter
Britta Hammelstein
Britt Rebmann
Vilmar Bieri
Lothar Bischoff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year Germany legalized same-sex marriage, the film captures the last gasp of institutionalized homophobia in German police culture.
The communal shower scene launched a thousand Tumblr edits and remains one of cinema's most tension-filled uses of male nudity that's actually about vulnerability, not sex.
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