Aquaplaning

Aquaplaning

1987 de 80 minutes

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Plot

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

Imke Barnstedt

Imke Barnstedt

Dominik Bender

Dominik Bender

Barbara Beutler

Barbara Beutler

Sebastian Bleisch

Sebastian Bleisch

Gerd Bös

Gerd Bös

Martina Gedeck

Martina Gedeck

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