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Country: Germany, Language: German, 95 mins

Original Title

Zurück auf Los!
  • Director: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss
  • Writer: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss
  • Producer: Frank Löprich; Katrin Schlösser

CGiii Comment

Intense...with incongruous comedy and cheesy pop music.

It doesn't work mainly due the created characters - none of them have the potential of becoming a friend.

It's clumsy and depressingly dull.


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The(ir) Blurb...

After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, but promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former East Berlin (its bulidings, cars, people & culture), Sam develops a "family" for the new millenium, for the new generation of post-drug cocktail AIDS victims. The fragile "family" he forms includes his on-again-off-again boyfriend Rainer, and his best friend Bastl with his latest fling, Mike. Like the old, schmaltzy East German songs which Sam is recording, the sweet innocence of the characters struggle to prevail, the misfortunes of the characters nothwithstanding.

Cast & Characters

Thilo Ackermann as Wirt;
Michael Ande as Pkw-Fahrer;
Dieter Bach as Rainer;
Markus Bottcher as Verkaufer;
Susanne Bowe as Uschi;
Stephan Dierichs as Fahrer;
Doris Dorrie as Zahnarztin;
Matthias Freihof as Bastl;
Paul Gilling as Mike;
Annette Gleichmann as Woman;
Nikolaus Grobe as Pantomime;
Mike Hinkel as Young Neighbour;
Ared Hubert as Khaleb;
Bart Klein as Manne;
Anja Kling as Woman