Bedways

Oct 7, 2010

1h 16m

★ 4.7

Berlin is the shelter, love is impossible, flesh is the law.

Overview

A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous mélange.

Genres

Music

Drama

Romance

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Independent Partners

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Cast

Nina Bader

Miriam Mayet

Marie Traunstein

Lana Cooper

Hans Alexander Dahn

Matthi Faust

Max König

Arno Frisch

Luise Walther

Laura Tonke

Georg Reitzenstein

Moritz Ross

Türsteher

Helge-Björn Meyer

Stimme

Ute Schwidden

Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering Maggie has fallen hard for an attractive woman, Kim, only hours before they move in. What could be a nonissue becomes increasingly complicated -- since Maggie's family is unaware of her sexual orientation, and Maggie is not open to sharing that information.

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