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Dark Satellites

Dark Satellites

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 1, 2022

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

73%

Original Title

Die stillen Trabanten

Production Companies

Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany

Director

Thomas Stuber

Description

A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.