Eldorado

Jun 4, 2008

1h 25m

★ 6.6

Overview

Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some extraordinary people and find themselves in ditto situations.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Versus Production

Eldorado Trailers

Cast

Yvan

Bouli Lanners

Elie

Fabrice Adde

Le Collectionneur

Philippe Nahon

Le naturiste

Didier Toupy

La maman d'Elie

Françoise Chichéry

Stefan Liberski

Jean-Jacques Rausin

Renaud Rutten

Michaël Abiteboul

When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with him. Ingo decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Hitchhiking, they get rides with very different drivers on the autobahn. They meet up with the smooth-talking Ali in the wayside dinner "Raststätte Spessart". Arriving in Munich, the trio tries to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school. Moreover, Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin. Written by emkarpf

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