A close friendship between two women is tested over the course of a single sultry Berlin summer in this bittersweet and wonderfully wry film from German director Andreas Dresen. Katrin Engel (Inka Friedrich) is a 39-year-old divorcee who, after the failure of her marriage to her East German husband, moved to Berlin where she's now raising her son, Max (Vincent Redetzki), and looking for work as a window dresser. Nicole "Nike" Pawelski (Nadja Uhl) is a homecare attendant who spends her days visiting with her elderly and housebound clients, gamely changing their diapers, feeding them lunch, listening to their endlessly repeated stories and, as in the case of Helene (Ch...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
107 mins