Black Box

by Asli Özge

A pot-boiler about gentrification, prejudices and power play set in the microcosm of a Berlin apartment building. Directed by the multiple award-winning director of "Men on the Bridge", co-produced by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

For undisclosed reasons, the entrances and exits of a Berlin apartment building are blocked for the time being. No one gets in or out. Left in the dark by the police, the residents start to speculate. First they assume there may be a bomb planted right outside the door. Then a rumour about a criminal hiding in the courtyard spreads. Suspicion turns into insecurities which turn into aggression. Prejudices bring polarisation, old conflicts come to light again and the residents start to suspect and denounce one another. In this situation of existential danger, they lose their mask of human decency. They start to show their real faces and each one of them pursues their own interests in this play of power and capitalism.

Genre / Language
Drama / German
Original title
Black Box
directed by
Asli Özge
director of photography
Emre Erkmen
produced by
Zeitsprung Pictures, Les Films du Fleuve in co-production with gilles mann filmproduktion, ZDF, Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion, VOO and Be Tv
Cast
  • Luise Heyer (THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUPLE, JACK)
  • Felix Kramer (SOMEDAY WE'LL TELL EACH OTHER EVERYTHING, DARK)
  • Christian Berkel (ELLE, DOWNFALL)
  • Anne Ratte-Polle (WILLENBROCK, UNDINE, DARK)
  • Sascha Alexander Gersak (NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN)
  • Timur Magomedgadzhiev (TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT)
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