Rainer has a miserable life. He works as a pizza delivery guy in a small eastern german town. Unhappy with his situation and apparently short on money he's also struggeling with the dementia of his mother, who he cares for. Soon he can't take it anymore having anything accomplished in his life. With his mother in a home and a self-made bomb in the back of his delivery scooter he's heading north to Berlin. The road trip begins.
Acting
David Emig's magnificent slouch of perpetual defeat
Writing
Guardian angel device that shouldn't work but absolutely does
Director
Matthias Kubusch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Ostalgie' era produced endless Berlin-escape fantasies; this one knows the city won't save you. The scooter journey mocks the classic German road trip tradition while trapped in it.
Directors von Wroblewsky and Kubusch cast actual care facility residents for authenticity in the mother scenes. The bomb prop was functional enough that police were notified during filming.
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