Berlin. A lonely construction worker falls in love with an East European prostitute. She asks him to marry her - but they have different ideas about the reason for this marriage.
Direction
Moore captures Berlin's gray anonymity as a character.
Acting
Schmidt's guarded vulnerability against Lézin's desperate hope.
Director
Eoin Moore
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1998, this captures a specific moment of post-reunification Berlin—East meets West, but nobody's happy.
Director Eoin Moore was Irish; his outsider eye explains the film's detached, observational quality toward German characters.
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