Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. Daniel is a movie star accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and the nanny has the children under control. Everything is tip-top, bilingual and ready for him to jet off to an audition in London where a role in an American superhero film awaits the celebrated German-Spanish actor. Popping into the local bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. As transpires by the minute, Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification's losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target...
Acting
Peter Kurth's simmering resentment is *chef's kiss* uncomfortable
Direction
Brühl directing his own humiliation: narcissism or self-awareness?
Writing
Conversational power plays that escalate like a slow-motion car crash
Director
Daniel Brühl
Daniel Brühl
Daniel
Peter Kurth
Bruno
Rike Eckermann
Hilde
Aenne Schwarz
Clara
Vicky Krieps
The New Tennant
Justine Hirschfeld
Nanny Conchita
Ole Hermann
Mirko
Nils Dörgeloh
Nils
Luisa-Céline Gaffron
Luisa
Johanna Polley
Johanna
Mex Schlüpfer
Homeless Guido
Stefan Scheumann
Dirk
Nils Brunkhorst
Man of the couple in front of pub
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brühl grew up in Cologne's multicultural Chorweiler district and has called Berlin's gentrification 'soul-crushing'—this is his therapy session disguised as satire.
The bar is a real Kreuzberg institution, and several regulars didn't know they were in a movie until they saw the premiere. Brühl's method? Chaos.
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