A teenager becomes so obsessed with movies he forgets which life is actually his.
Influenced by the world of cinema, an 18-year-old escapes from everyday life in the big city and sees his own realization in the world of myths that the films seem to offer him.
Direction
Frosch blurs reality and cinematic fantasy until you can't tell either.
Acting
Zacharias Preen's vacant intensity mirrors every lonely film kid.
Cinematography
Berlin becomes a widescreen dreamscape worth escaping into.
Director
Gerd Roman Frosch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the dying days of West Berlin's art house scene, it captures a generation using American cinema to avoid German identity.
Barbara Rudnik was cast specifically because Frosch wanted the 'unattainable woman' from Fassbinder films made flesh.
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