Aquaplaning

Aquaplaning

1987
1h 20m
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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.

Status: Released

Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies
ZDF Eva Hiller Filmproduktion
Production Countries
Germany
Spoken Languages
German

Quick Facts

Release Date May 12, 1987
Status Released
Language DE
IMDb ID tt0757864

Cast

Werner Stocker
Werner Stocker

Herrmann Ort

Martina Gedeck
Martina Gedeck

Patrizia

Imke Barnstedt
Imke Barnstedt

Dominik Bender
Dominik Bender

Budenbesitzer

Barbara Beutler
Barbara Beutler

Sebastian Bleisch
Sebastian Bleisch

Gerd Bös
Gerd Bös

Helmut Krauss
Helmut Krauss

Vermieter

Key Crew

Eva Hiller
Director
Eva Hiller
Writer