No Place to Go

Apr 20, 2000

1h 50m

★ 5.8

Overview

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no one to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Distant Dreams Filmproduktion

ZDF

No Place to Go Trailers

Cast

Hanna Flanders

Hannelore Elsner

Bruno

Vadim Glowna

Joachim

Michael Gwisdek

Meret

Jasmin Tabatabai

Viktor

Lars Rudolph

Grete

Nina Petri

Ronald

Tonio Arango

Carmen

Claudia Geisler-Bading

Isabelle

Catherine Flemming

Hanna's Vater

Charles Regnier

Imbissverkäufer

Martin Wuttke

Krankenschwester

Marie Zielcke

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