Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Acting
Peschel's physicality—drunk grace and collapse in every stumble.
Direction
Thalheim lets scenes breathe until they suffocate.
Director
Robert Thalheim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 2004, it captures pre-gentrification Prenzlauer Berg—scruffy, affordable, full of artists who could still afford to fail.
The food scenes aren't cozy; they're transactional survival. That sad pizza becomes a symbol of everything Marcel can't provide.