German Version

Olivier Kolb 

 Oliver Rihs

"Since we were living in Berlin, we had the wish to make a small independent punk-style episode movie about the seedy spirit of this city - mean, funny, but full of love. Berlin - that doesn't mean the toughness and coolness of London, the glamorous showmanship and overdrive of New York or the museum-like arrogance of Paris. 

Berlin - what a city! Once built from sand and swamps, constantly bankrupt, never finished building - a place that defines itself through an assembly of non-places. Where people meet Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock for breakfast. Here, where nobody has ever any real money, but there is always enough for a drink, where people enjoy to have funny anti-capitalist ideas and discussions and anti-Americanisms are fashion. 

 

 

Where building up a career seems to be rather odd than sexy, where any attempt to strive for success feels somehow politically incorrect. Director Oliver Rihs explained six different writers roughly what he had in mind, where the episodes should play and gave them a brief outline of the characters. The rest was freefall. 

The result is a comedy in five facets - tasteless, chaotic, neurotic, ugly, naive and somehow very loving and charming, just like Berlin. The characters tap through a series of everyday tragic comedies and funny backyard dramas - burdened by their tasks that will soon disappear as they walk on."

 

Director's Statement        Interview