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You can’t outrun the past - even on a Game Boy.
15-year-old Moritz lives with his father near East Berlin, helping at his gas station and drifting through life after his girlfriend leaves him. He skips school, hides in a crumbling house, and escapes into music, Game Boy games, and memories of his mother - believed to have died ten years ago. But a chance discovery reveals she’s alive and living in Hamburg. Moritz sets out to confront her and the truth.Read moreLess
15-year-old Moritz lives with his father near East Berlin, helping at his gas station and drifting through life after his girlfriend leaves him. He skips school, hides in a crumbling house, and escapes into music, Game Boy games, and memories of his mother - believed to have died ten years ago. But a chance discovery reveals she’s alive and living in Hamburg. Moritz sets out to confront her and the truth.
The story
15-year-old Moritz lives with his father near East Berlin, helping at his gas station and drifting through life after his girlfriend leaves him. He skips school, hides in a crumbling house, and escapes into music, Game Boy games, and memories of his mother - believed to have died ten years ago. But a chance discovery reveals she’s alive and living in Hamburg. Moritz sets out to confront her and the truth.
Cast & crew
Richard KropfMoritz
Corinna KirchhoffHelga
Isabell GerschkeKatja
Janina FliegerTanja
Thomas RühmannPaul
Karin MikitylaPetraExplore the crew
- Director
- Igor Zaritzky
- Producer
- Veit Helmer
- Original Music Composer
- Christoph Oertel
- Editor
- Monika Kappl-Smith
- Director of Photography
- Michael Schaufert
- Writer
- Igor Zaritzky