A bankrupt campsite, a bank robber, and a washed-up GDR crooner walk into a bar...
10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, at the "Perfect Sight" campsite, located on the Island of Rügen on the German Baltic Sea coast: the former state property has been taken over by an ex-officer of the German army. Now the new moved in West German rules the site. Anyone who opposes him is banned. With a little imagination and a few tricks, he wanted to make the deal of a lifetime. But he has miscalculated and run the property into the ground, bankruptcy is imminent. His employee, the Vietnamese German Pit Sun, somehow keeps the place together and has a child with the owner's daughter. But since he hasn't received any money for a long time, he wants to run away to Vietnam. The tradition-conscious East German campers are also not happy with the bad-tempered campsite operator. It's just as well that Claus Oehlke has robbed a bank and is only throwing the money around to impress his wife. But she only has eyes for the former GDR crooner Michi Fanselow, the dream of her youth.
Acting
Ill-Young Kim anchors the chaos with weary, dignified desperation.
Production
The campsite itself: perfect metaphor for rotting German dreams.
Writing
Satire so specific it probably only works if you know your Ossis from your Wessis.
Director
Sören Voigt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rügen's 'Perfect Sight' campsite was a real East German vacation staple; the film weaponizes that nostalgia against itself. SpoilerLevel: FREE
Director Sören Voigt allegedly cast actual former FDGB vacationers as extras—they reportedly didn't realize they were in a comedy. SpoilerLevel: LIGHT
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