Movie Description
Aquaplaning
(1987)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Eva Hiller
- Writer : Eva Hiller
- Editor : Dörte Völz-Mammarella
- Cast : Werner Stocker,Martina Gedeck,Imke Barnstedt,Dominik Bender,Barbara Beutler,Sebastian Bleisch,Gerd Bös,Helmut Krauss
Cast
Herrmann Ort
Patrizia
Budenbesitzer
Vermieter
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Facts
Original TitleAquaplaning
Status Released
Release Information
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1987-05-12
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 01h 20m
Production CompaniesZDF,Eva Hiller Filmproduktion
Genres
- TV Movie
- Drama
