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.
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Cast
13 people
Werner Stocker
Herrmann Ort
Martina Gedeck
Patrizia
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Eva Hiller
Matthias Raue
Imke Barnstedt
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Helmut Krauss
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Marlies Gedeck
Patrizia
Eva Hiller Director · Matthias Raue Composer Thomas Mauch Cinematographer
First release May 12, 1987 · Produced in Germany · Production Eva Hiller Filmproduktion
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ZDF
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Eva Hiller Filmproduktion
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Germany
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German
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German
Release dates
Germany · May 12, 1987
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