Camera : Andreas LANDECK Design : Johannes WANJA KILBER Music : Peter FINK Cast : Sergej EPP, Harry BAER, Roman LINDOW, Elfia JUSUPOWA,
Gabriele GYSI, Wolfgang GRELLA, Alexej ORLENCO, Heiko BLOME, Dschambulat
ISMAILOW, Ilona SCHROETER, Andrej SCHIGOLEV, Bodo VITUS Producers : Holger LOCHAU, Natalia DROZD
Production : CTB, HFF Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg, Amselfilm
Productions GmbH&Co. KG World sales : СТВ Tel. +7 (495) 684-5817
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The film is based on the real life story of a 20-year-old youngster. The main character moves from Russia to
Germany together with his parents, Russian-born Germans. In the maze of life in Berlin he tries to find his own
identity and his place in this new reality. A pupil of the German school, an unskilled worker, a seller at a Russian
fishmonger’s, an extra at the German Opera, a petty criminal. That is the meandering path that his life takes. The
multifaceted Russian Berlin, the tragicomic existence of emigrants become the background for his life. He meets
many different people, finds his love, goes on the racket with friends, who are resettlers just like him, works,
paints, makes plans for the future… and happens to become an accomplice in a murder. Thus for him the expanses
of Russia narrowed to the dimensions of a German prison cell.
