Behind Locked Doors

Behind Locked Doors

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 1990

Runtime

1h 8m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Hinter verschlossenen Türen

Director

Anka Schmid

Description

Berlin, an old apartment building between the S-Bahn and the street. Seventeen people live there. The old photographer Kempinski, shrouded in his memories. Hannelore, dreaming of distant lands, temporarily sharing her apartment with her lovesick niece. Bona, who occasionally drinks a beer with his roommate and teaches French in the kitchen. The two teenage sisters with their newly in love mom. The medieval caretaker couple and the young couple whose daughter Paula would rather sit in the stairwell than go to school. On the face of it, they all have nothing in common apart from their home address. The film tells in microscopically accurate, realistic visual language and on changing levels of the common everyday life of small people.