Dreileben: Beats Being Dead

Thursday, April 18, 2013

“A convicted killer, released under police custody to pay his last respects to his late mother, escapes from a country hospital at the start of director Christian Petzold’s genre-bending, wonderfully unpredictable BEATS BEING DEAD. But the film soon comes to center on the story of two star-crossed lovers: Johannes (Jacob Matschenz), a shy young hospital orderly, and Bosnian refugee Ana (Luna Mijovic), whom Johannes nobly rescues from the clutches of her abusive biker boyfriend. In the background, a police manhunt proceeds apace, while in the foreground Petzold reminds us there is sometimes nothing as dangerous as first love.” – New York Film Festival

• Country Germany
• Language In German with English subtitles
• Rating NR
• Year 2011
• Running Time 88 minutes
• Director Christian Petzold

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