Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Both are friends with Uwe, who runs a fast food kiosk, and Ellen, who works in a perfume shop. Their four lives are stuck in a rut. Until the day Chris and Ellen sleep together and upset the balance of the two couples...
Acting
Four performances so natural you'll forget it's fiction.
Direction
Dresen's handheld intimacy makes voyeurism feel like empathy.
Director
Andreas Dresen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Set in Frankfurt/Oder, a border town economically gutted post-reunification—the concrete high-rises are characters too.
Dresen used no script during rehearsals; actors improvised until dialogue felt authentically exhausted.
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