What happens when a man who color-codes his socks falls for a woman who can't see his neuroses?
The lonely bank-employee Phillip follows a strict pattern of somewhat compulsive actions keeping his encounters with strangers to a minimum. When his home one day is robbed of all content and he later meets the enchanting blind cellist Lina, he finds, however, he needs to start improvising and taking chances.
Acting
Trost's physical comedy of repressed panic is masterclass cringe.
Direction
Getto finds beauty in mundane Berlin spaces most directors ignore.
Director
Almut Getto
Bastian Trost
Phillip
Katharina Schüttler
Lina
Katja Danowski
Zarah
Christoph Hagen Dittmann
Sicherheitsbeamter
Piet Fuchs
Ton
Stephan Grossmann
Dr. Bachmann
Traute Hoess
Ramona
Jörg Malchow
Fuchs Junior
Aurel Manthei
Christian
Axel Olsson
Fuchs Senior
Oscar Ortega Sánchez
Kellner
Andreas Patton
Therapeut
Heiko Pinkowski
Jürgen Rißmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Getto developed this from her own short film, expanding a 12-minute character study into full feature.
Part of a 2000s wave of 'Berlin School' humanist cinema—think less 'Run Lola Run,' more awkward eye contact on the U-Bahn. The film deliberately rejects German comedy's usual loudness for something almost embarrassingly intimate.
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