A paramedic who saves lives can't save himself from falling for a ghost.
Acting
Schweighöfer's fragile, desperate paramedic
Direction
Hölzemann's unflinching Cologne nightscapes
Cinematography
Neon-soaked ambulance rides through empty streets
Director
Hendrik Hölzemann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Matthias Schweighöfer was only 23 here, already showing the vulnerable everyman charm that made him Germany's biggest rom-com star.
Shot in Cologne's actual red-light district and emergency rooms, it captures early-2000s German indie cinema's obsession with wounded masculinity in urban decay.
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