Four days of beautiful decay before the inevitable—German cinema at its most dangerously seductive.
A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
Acting
Brühl and Diehl's toxic best-friend chemistry crackles.
Cinematography
Golden-hour lake scenes that romanticize self-destruction.
Costume
1920s Berlin bohemia done with painful accuracy.
Director
Achim von Borries
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real 1927 'Steglitzer Schülertragödie,' a scandal that obsessed Weimar-era newspapers.
The film deliberately echoes the visual language of German Expressionism to make Günther's death feel predestined by aesthetic tradition itself.
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