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Break Even
Construction worker Alex is a loser. The failed family man has been living for months in a container on the building site. Ruth has been on the game for some time, a victim of the ′Wende′ who still dreams of ′a normal life′. Finally, Svetlana is a refuge from Bosnia who is soon to be deported.
Alex meets her on the in Berlin′s Kurfuerstenstrasse. Three lonely people who want to change their lives, whose greatest obstacle on the path to self-improvement is as much themselves as the circumstances.
"Break Even arose from a five-week character development phase with the actors. Dialogues were never written down and the shoot had a distinctly documentary nature. The ′from the hip′ style camerawork and jump-cut editing give the film a dynamic pace which stands in interesting contrast to the simple storyline and precise concentration on the characters" Eoin Moore.
Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Cast
- Alex
- Svetlana
- Ruth
- Matze
- Ingo
- Alex' Frau
- Werkzeugkäufer
- Ire Eoin
- Rudi
- Imbissverkäuferin
Production company
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Assistant camera
Still photography
Camera (other)
Set design
Title
Make-up artist
Costume design
Editing
Sound
Sound assistant
Audio mixing
Cast
- Alex
- Svetlana
- Ruth
- Matze
- Ingo
- Alex' Frau
- Werkzeugkäufer
- Ire Eoin
- Rudi
- Imbissverkäuferin
- Fatima
- Friseurkundin
- Chefin der "Dill-Gurke"
- Toni
- 1. Gast der "Dill-Gurke"
- 2. Gast der "Dill-Gurke"
- 3. Gast der "Dill-Gurke"
- 4. Gast der "Dill-Gurke"
- 5. Gast der "Dill-Gurke"
- 6. Gast der "Dill-Gurke"
- Jugoslawin
- Jugoslawischer Musiker
- Freier
- Verkäuferin
- Jörg
- Stefan
- Zoe
Production company
in association with
Producer (TV)
Unit production manager
Location manager
Original distributor
Shoot
- 1997: Berlin [12 Tage im Herbst (?)]
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 07.04.2000, 84593, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Kinostart (DE): 30.03.2000
Titles
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- Schreibvariante Plus-Minus Null
- Originaltitel (DE) plus-minus null
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 07.04.2000, 84593, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Kinostart (DE): 30.03.2000
Awards
- Förderpreis Deutscher Film, Regie