German Film Festival 2017: Good Bye Berlin

German Film Festival 2017: Good Bye Berlin

Film

Past event

Philip Carter Family Auditorium

FREE

This mini-festival, courtesy of the Goethe-Institut, showcases a fine selection of ten internationally acclaimed films from Germany, Switzerland and Austria in German with English subtitles. Admission is free – just turn up early to secure your seats.

While his mother is in rehab and his father is on a ‘business trip’ with his assistant, the 14-year-old outsider Maik Klingenberg is spending the summer holidays alone by the pool at his parents' villa. But then Tschick appears. Tschick, whose real name is Andrej Tschichatschow, originally comes from deepest Russia, but now lives in a high-rise in Berlin-Marzahn. He arrives at the villa with a stolen Lada begins a journey, without a map or a compass, through summery, provincial eastern Germany.

This is the story of a summer that we would all like to experience once... the best summer of all!

Duration: 93 mins
Language: German with English subtitles

Rating: M – violence and offensive language