Romeo and Julia walk into a New Year's party — what could go wrong?
A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile sub-culture, especially the ways of keeping a partnership - or breaking it up in between.
Acting
Zielcke and Kahl's raw, unglamorous chemistry
Direction
Roehler's fly-on-wall party chaos
Director
Oskar Roehler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Oskar Roehler's second feature; he'd later become one of Germany's most controversial auteurs with films like 'No Place to Go' and 'Elementary Particles'.
Shot during the peak of Berlin's post-reunification creative explosion, it captures a specific moment when cheap rent and no rules made the city a magnet for restless young artists.
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