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"A young man is confronted with constant changing memories and a nightmarish reality from which he has to escape."

2010

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Overview

Levin lives in his memories and can't shake his first love. Caught in a spiral of constant changing memories he figures out what he really did. Meanwhile his boss forces him to join an elite group of brokers, who meet to fight each other on weekends. Those meetings are a counter balance to their stressful jobs. Levin decides that his big ego doesn't deserve to live. But instead of going through with this decision, he escapes again, risking the life of his boss during one of the fight weekends.

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9 featured cast members

Starring

Levin Goldmann

Levin 1

Julia Schäfle

Julia Schäfle

Roja

Anton Rubtsov

Anton Rubtsov

Levin 2

Julia Althoff

Rita Fuchs

Alex Anasuya

Alex Anasuya

Natalja

Ubin Eoh

Liebe

Sabrina Caramanna

Sonja

Sonja Bertram

Roja 2

Anja Harnisch

Luisa Brecht

Creative team

Directed by: Joseph Bolz
Written by: Joseph Bolz

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