

Childhood dance partners reunite after a decade—will they step on each other's hearts?
After ten years, Hella Mayer and her boyhood friend Andreas meet again in Berlin on the street. Both know each other from common dance lessons times.
Acting
Sinjen's restrained desperation, Bantzer's gentle ambivalence
Direction
Schamoni's documentary roots bring painful authenticity

Director
Ulrich Schamoni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schamoni was a leading figure in the Young German Film movement, rejecting the grandiosity of 1950s Heimat cinema for these small, painful stories.
Released in 1970, the film captures West Berlin's peculiar limbo—geographically isolated, culturally hungry, emotionally suspended between reconstruction and revolution.