A somewhat impressionist, at times even slightly surreal miniature about a student (Werner Stocker in a splendid performance) who, out of financial difficulties, starts out as pool attendant at an open air swimming pool in Berlin's district of Neukölln. Escaping from his unpleasant landlord and his lover Patrizia (a very young Martina Gedeck), he soon starts to live at the baths, and as swimmers disappear and the baths are closed for the winter, he turns the grounds into his own, perfect refuge from civilisation and social pressure, becoming increasingly detached from reality. What may sound like an annoyingly gimmicky premise is executed here playfully, yet with admirable simplicity and a subtle, unpretentious poetic sensibility that one would wish for more often in contemporary German cinema.
Werner Stocker
Herrmann Ort
Martina Gedeck
Patrizia
Imke Barnstedt
Cast
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May 12, 1987
1h 20m
0.0
Eva Hiller
Eva Hiller
0
ZDF
DE
Eva Hiller Filmproduktion
N/A
Dominik Bender
Budenbesitzer
Barbara Beutler
Cast
Sebastian Bleisch
Cast
Gerd Bös
Cast
Helmut Krauss
Vermieter
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