"Let it burn!" is the short answer to the question posed by the title of this strained German comedy about former radicals-turned-bourgeois bores. Needless to say, THE BIG CHILL it's not. Back in the '80s, the members of a political filmmaking collective called "Group 36" spent their days agitating for social change through "creative anarchy," planning actions like planting a homemade bomb in an abandoned house in Grunewald and capturing it all on film. The bomb failed to go off and the party ended when the Berlin police donned riot gear and evicted the group from their Machnow Street squat. Hotte (Martin Feifel), who lost both legs during the riots, and Tim (Til Sch...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
102 mins