Outside Time

Story

Synopsis

Outside Time is the second feature film of Andreas Kleinert, a German director who grew up in the GDR and who started making films at the time of the fall of the Wall. The film is set in a small town somewhere in Brandenburg, a place which is rapidly falling "outside time"; since it cannot keep pace with the changes brought about by unification and the transformation of the former GDR. The Russian troops stationed there have withdrawn and their barracks have turned into rat-infested ruins; the intercity trains do not stop there any more and even the regional railway link to Berlin is going to be suspended. Most young people are leaving. When Sophie introduces her lover to her mother and her brother, Sergej becomes embroiled in the incestuous tensions underlying the relationship between Sophie, her brother, Georg, and her mother. The arrival of the Russian implodes the claustrophobic sham existence that held this dysfunctional family together.

Director

Andreas Kleinert

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

26 October 1995

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Rosel Zech

  Sophies Mutter

• 

  Julia Jäger

  Sophie

• 

  Sylvester Groth

  Georg

• 

  Christine Schorn

  Frau Plessow

• 

  Victor Deiß

  Polizist

• Heidemarie Schneider

  Kellnerin

• 

  Michael Schweighöfer

  Grambke