Aquaplaning (1987)
1h 20m
Running Time
May 12, 1987Release Date
Aquaplaning (1987)
1h 20m
Running Time
May 12, 1987Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Imke Barnstedt

Dominik Bender

Barbara Beutler

Sebastian Bleisch

Gerd Bös

Martina Gedeck

Matthias Raue
Music

Eva Ebner
Ältere Dame

Eva Hiller
Director

Helmut Krauss
Vermieter

Dieter Kursawe
Oberbademeister

Axel Block
Cinematographer

Eberhard Geick
Cinematographer

Thomas Mauch
Cinematographer

Dörte Völz-Mammarella
Editor

Brigitte Abel
ProductionDesigner
Details.
This Movie Is About.
woman director
berlin germany
neukölln
swimming pool
berlin