All hell has broken loose in the afterlife because the scatterbrained Schulz has killed his friend Frieder instead of the architecture student Sebastian. Frieder's soul rebels until the underworld agrees to give him a second chance. But first he has to persuade Sebastian to commit suicide.
Acting
Korittke's deadpan desperation as a ghost
Writing
Suicide played as bureaucratic negotiation
Direction
Gutmann's grimy 90s Berlin aesthetic
Director
Michael Gutmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rohe Ostern captures post-reunification Berlin's nihilistic comedy scene, where East German absurdism met Western capitalist dysfunction.
Director Michael Gutmann never made another feature; this remains his singular contribution to German cinema's darkest comedic traditions.
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