Seven years inside, one night out—can a con ever really come home?
After 7 years spent in jail Paul is free again. With his old crew he celebrates his return. Nothing seems to have changed. And soon Paul finds himself drunk as a skunk at a party in a Blankenese villa...
Acting
Paul Lys carries world-weariness in every shrug and silence.
Direction
Lemke's handheld naturalism predicts the Berlin School decades early.
Director
Klaus Lemke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Blankenese, Hamburg's wealthiest district, the film weaponizes class geography—Paul's crew crashes a villa party like invaders from another Germany.
Lemke cast mostly non-professionals, including actual former convicts; Paul Lys had served time, lending the prison-release scene documentary tension.
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