NEXT DOOR

NEBENAN

By Daniel BRÜHL

FILM EUROPE (CZECH REPUBLIC) - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, CZECH REPUBLIC / FEST / BROAD

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.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2021
Official selection
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Black comedy
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Languages
    • GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 92 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Daniel BRÜHL
    • 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…