"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.
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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
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