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BERLIN BYTCH LOVE

By Heiko AUFDERMAUER, Johannes GIRKE

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Documentary - Completed 2022

Sophie (15) and Dominik (17) have been living on the streets around Görlitzer Park in Berlin for six months. They sleep in doorways, collect bottles and love each other - as unconditionally and absolutely as teenagers do.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 86 mn
- Director(s)
- Heiko AUFDERMAUER, Johannes GIRKE
- Writer(s)
- Heiko AUFDERMAUER, Johannes GIRKE
- Producer(s)
- Heiko AUFDERMAUER (Silent Film), Johannes GIRKE (Silent Film)
- Synopsis
- Summer in Berlin. Sophie (15) and Dominik (17) have been living on the streets around Görlitzer Park for six months. They sleep in doorways, collect bottles - and love each other as unconditionally and absolutely as teenagers do. If they are separated for even a moment, disaster strikes.
  Sophie has been reported as "missing" by her father - so they have no chance of getting help from the state. They sell postcards, collect bottles and "scrounge" a few cents. They live an insecure, dangerous but free life in the midst of and yet beyond society.
  
  In October, Sophie is four months pregnant and winter is on the horizon. At the same time, a court date looms: Dominik has to answer for several criminal offences committed in recent years. He is facing years in prison.
  
  A friend, who is also homeless, suggests they flee to France. Maybe they could start a new life there? But can you run away with a child in your womb?
  Dominik decides to contact the authorities and face up to his past.
  The court hearing turns out to be an opportunity to return to legality. A few weeks later, the two of them have a small flat about 70 kilometres from Berlin - in the middle of the forest. What had long been the goal of their longing now often turns out to be a horror. An agonising boredom descends on them. Is this the price they have to pay for a reasonably secure life?
  In May, their son Luca is born. Dominik has invested the money for the initial equipment in hard drugs - and so the collapse of their fragile order is not long in coming.