Aquaplaning

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Imke Barnstedt

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Dominik Bender

Age : 67 | Popularity : 3%

Barbara Beutler

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Sebastian Bleisch

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Gerd Bös

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Martina Gedeck

Age : 62 | Popularity : 6%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Music	Matthias Raue
Directing	Director	Eva Hiller
Department	Role	Name

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