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HEIKO'S WORLD

HEIKOS WELT

By Dominik GALIZIA

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Comedy - Completed 2021

“Heiko’s World” (German title: “Heikos Welt“) is a feature film by Dominik Galizia about the Berlin cult cat Heiko.

Filmfest Munich 2021

"New German Cinema Award: Best Actor" for Martin Rohde

Achtung Berlin 2021

“Prize of the Most Audience-attracting Film”

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 108 mn
- Director(s)
- Dominik GALIZIA
- Cast
- Martin ROHDE, Leyla ROY, Franz ROGOWSKI, Hans-Jürgen ALF, Heike HANOLD-LYNCH
- Producer(s)
- Alexander SCHOELLER (Alexander Schoeller Production), Dominik GALIZIA (Mutter & Vater Filmproduktion)
- Synopsis
- Heiko’s mother Belinda suffers from keratoconus, a rare condition of the cornea. She is gradually losing her sight and could soon go completely blind if she is not given treatment. Belinda’s eyesight could be restored with the cornea of a deceased donor – but such a transplant costs a lot of money, and the health insurance does not cover it.
  
  For Heiko, this is the beginning of an odyssey through the Berlin pub world: in order to raise the money for his mother’s operation, he faces the best dart players in town, at first reluctantly, but then with growing ambition, euro by euro. They, however, pursue completely different plans and thus draw Heiko into a spiral of madness that he could not have imagined before.
  
  „Heiko’s World“ is a wacky, loving ode to – and odyssey through – Berlin’s corner pubs with their very own fauna of original characters, full of unexpected twists and turns, and with a main character who grows on us on his beer-soaked hero’s journey.