Ostkreuz

Shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, 15-year-old Elfie flees to the West with her mother. But her hopes are not fulfilled in dreary, grey Berlin. With a Polish small-time crook and the aimless Edmund, she drifts through a city full of empty spaces, ruins and non-spaces ... Michael Klier's multi-award-winning, haunting drama is clearly inspired by Rossellini's neo-realism.