Rent Goodbye Berlin (2016)
3.7 of 5 from 101 ratings
1h 30min
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- Synopsis:
- While his mother is in rehab and his father is on a 'business trip' with his assistant, 14-year-old outsider Maik (Tristan Göbel) is spending the summer holidays bored and alone at his parents' villa, when rebellious teenager Tschick (Anand Batbileg) appears. Tschick, a Russian immigrant and an outcast, steals a car and decides to set off on a journey away from Berlin with Maik tagging along for the ride. So begins a wild adventure where the two experience the trip of a lifetime and share a summer that they will never forget.
- Actors:
- Tristan Göbel, Aniya Wendel, Justina Humpf, Paul Busche, Jerome Hirthammer, Max Kluge, Udo Samel, Anja Schneider, Nadine Dubois, Henning Peker, Uwe Bohm, Anand Batbileg, Katerina Poladjan, Sammy Scheuritzel, Julius Felsberg, Xenia Assenza, Aurelia Selene Schäfer, Philomena Köbele, Helena Siegmund-Schultze, Noah Wiechers
- Directors:
- Fatih Akin
- Producers:
- Marco Mehlitz
- Writers:
- Wolfgang Herrndorf, Lars Hubrich, Fatih Akin, Hark Bohm
- Aka:
- Tschick
- Studio:
- StudioCanal
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Children & Family, Comedy, Drama
- Countries:
- Germany
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Reviews (2) of Goodbye Berlin
No reviews?! - Goodbye Berlin review by rhilton311
I do find it strange that this coming of age film has no reviews. I accept the market for this genre is overfull but this is one of the better ones and is also a road movie to boot. From the wield opening with pigs running loose on the motorway (don't ask) it backtracks to how we get here,
There is lovely acting support from an alcoholic mother who if she wasn't alcoholic would be the type of mother every adolescent boy would love to have. And actually even being alcoholic still means you'd want her to be your mother!
On their road journey they meet a number of people including a bizarre and highly intelligent and religious family (again with a fascinating mother figure).
OK I could ramble on but really my message is give this a go!
Thanks
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Teenage Caper German Road Movie Based on a Young Adult Novel - Goodbye Berlin review by PV
This is based on a young adult novel called TSCHICK, I believe, and teenagers will probably like it therefore.
It features vignettes of the various odd people a pair of teens meet on a road trip in the summer holidays. It is what it is.
All a cartoon character caper really, saved by the main character who is interesting and played well; I thought his Russian friend was less believable and maybe a tad too old/big, though maybe not - some 14 year olds are six foot!
It's worth a watch, though as with many such road/journey movies, it's hard to believe some of the characters the pair coincidentally meet. There are some great road movies, and walking ones. 1989 TV movie FIRST AND LAST is a fave, as is TYPIST, ARTIST, PIRATE, KING (2023). So many more.
3 stars. Worth a watch and enjoyable enough.
One point - the mother bis portrayed as an alcoholic always glugging away at a bottle of vodka but, as in so many films (Wolf of Wall Street et al), these people are shown looking great with mild hangovers in the morning. They do not show shambling wrecks in bed for days with DTs and nightmares (watch The Lost Weekend for that or Leaving LAs Vegas maybe).
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