Overview
15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.
Cast
- Laura Tonke as Elfie
- Mirosław Baka as Darius
- Suzanne von Borsody as Mutter
- Stefan Cammann as Edmund
- Gustaw Barwicki as Gustav
- Henry Marcinkowski as Dicker Henry
- Beatrice Manowski as Karla
- Lutz Weidlich as Polizist
- Michael Krause as Polizist
- Sophie Rois as Friseuse