The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives an ordinary life. When a bank customer, whom Frederik has denied a loan in the face of the bank crisis, shoots himself in front of Frederik, he snaps. Together with ex-con Vince,he begins to live out a new, dark side of himself. He robs his rich bank customers' homes and gives the money to the needy. The initial rush of crossing social boundaries soon develops into an addiction to ever greater thrills.
Acting
Fabian Hinrichs' unhinged transformation from buttoned-up to feral.
Direction
Erlenwein's tight control of tonal whiplash between grim and absurd.
Director
Maximilian Erlenwein
Fabian Hinrichs
Frederick Feinermann
Jürgen Vogel
Vince Holland
Nora Waldstätten
Nadine Joris
Jule Böwe
Sonja
Jeroen Willems
Reinier Grimm
Thorsten Merten
Kollath
Eleonore Weisgerber
Frau Reicherts
Olaf Burmeister
Personalchef Bewerbungsbüro
Judith Engel
Frau Schneider
Fahri Yardım
Chef im Lager
Aurel Manthei
Typ auf Schrottplatz
Henning Peker
Herr Schneider
Simon Werner
Typ auf Parkplatz
Natalia Bobyleva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2010, the film channels raw post-2008 financial crisis rage—German cinema's answer to the anger that fueled Occupy movements worldwide.
The title 'Gravity' refers not to space but to the crushing weight of social expectation—and Frederik's desperate need to escape it.
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