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NEXT DOOR

NEBENAN

By Daniel BRÜHL

Black comedy - Completed 2021

In a seemingly chance encounter, movie star Daniel is being confronted by Bruno, one of reunified and gentrified Berlin’s losers. He knows everything about Daniel – and is bent on revenge.

Directed by and starring Daniel Brühl in his directorial debut.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Black comedy
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Daniel BRÜHL
- Writer(s)
- Daniel KEHLMANN
- Cast
- Daniel BRÜHL, Peter KURTH, Rike ECKERMANN, Aenne SCHWARZ, Gode BENEDIX
- Producer(s)
- Malte GRUNERT (Amusement Park Film)
- Synopsis
- Berlin, the Prenzlauer Berg district. Daniel is a movie star accustomed to success. His loft apartment is stylish and so is his wife, and the nanny has the children under control. Everything is tip-top, bilingual and ready for him to jet off to an audition in London where a role in an American superhero film awaits the celebrated German-Spanish actor. Popping into the local bar on the corner, he finds Bruno sitting there. As transpires by the minute, Bruno has been waiting for this moment for a long time. And so this eternally overlooked man – one of reunification's losers and a victim of the gentrification of what was once East Berlin – takes his revenge. With Daniel as his target…