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Night Shapes

World Cinema

CountryGermany
Production Year1999
Running Time104min
Format35mm
ColorCOLOR

Program Note

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. When the homeless Hanna finds 100 German marks, she and her friend Victor want to splurge it all and spend the night in a hotel. Their search for a room escalates into a chaotic journey through the city as well as a very hard test of their relationship. The farmer Jochen is in Berlin looking for female companionship and bumps into the streetwise teenage prostitute Patty, who agrees to spend the entire night with him for a set price. Jochen becomes disappointed and turns violent when he realizes the reason why Patty is so keen on his money. Peschke is a burnt-out businessman waiting to pick up a colleague at the airport who doesn′t show up. He wrongly suspects an Angolan boy of stealing his money. To make amends, he offers to drive the boy to his relatives. Their journey ends up with Peschke losing his car and almost his mind. Night Shapes is a hard-edged and humorous look at life in Berlin at the end of this century.

Director

Andreas DRESEN

Born in Gera in 1963, Andreas Dresen made his first amateur film as a boy. He worked as a sound engineer at the theater in Schwerin in 1984-95. He later studied directing at the Konrad Wolf film school in Babelsberg. He staged Goethe′s URFAUST at the State Theater in Cottbus. In 1998, he became a member of the German Academy of Arts in 1998. His directed many shorts including The Small Clown (1985), Train to Far Away (1989). He also made documentaries , such as Kraus′s Pub (1993) and The Cuckoo′s Children (1994). His feature films include The Quiet Land (1992), Night Shapes (1998).

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