Christian, a reclusive young man from Leipzig, gets a job working the night shift at a big-box store. He's trained to stocks goods and operate a forklift by Bruno, a wistful former truck driver, who introduces Christian to a colorful group of overnight workers, including Marion, with whom Christian develops a troubled infatuation.
Cinematography
Forklifts gliding through aisles like lost souls in purgatory.
Acting
Rogowski's wordless longing could crush your heart.
Direction
Stuber finds transcendence in shelf-stocking.
Director
Thomas Stuber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Franz Rogowski learned to operate a real forklift for months; that graceful aisle choreography is all him.
Based on Clemens Meyer's short story, part of a wave of post-reunification German cinema examining working-class East German identity.
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