Night Shapes

1999 [GERMAN]

Comedy / Drama

2
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 774 774

berlin, germany homeless person businessman refugee country life lovers

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Plot summary

The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.

Director

Andreas Dresen Photo
Andreas Dresen

Top cast

Axel Prahl Photo
Axel Prahl as Polizist
Michael Gwisdek Photo
Michael Gwisdek as Peschke
Dominique Horwitz Photo
Dominique Horwitz as Victor
Ricardo Valentim Photo
Ricardo Valentim as Feliz
720p.WEB
913.38 MB
1280*720
German 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by libertyvalance 7 / 10

A finely executed kaleidoscope of big city life and how it determines people's actions.

Writer/director Andreas Dresen has produced a nice little film with Nachtgestalten. It works on a level where Michael Haneke's Code inconnue failed miserably. The people, thrown together in a cold city where it is unwise to lift a finger to help a stranger in distress, are real and believable. Their actions are determined by the logic of their personalities and social position; watching Code inconnue you get the nauseating feeling that it is Haneke's pretentious opinion that is being forced down your throat; again and again. Dresen's stories allow for biting humor as well as moments of painful desperation; especially in my favourite story : that of the homeless couple in search of a hotelroom. Andreas Dresen is one of those new wave of young German directors who are pulling their country out of the oblivion where I for one thought they would be for a long time yet. Together with Tom Tykwer and Roland Suso Richter - to name but a few- Andreas Dresen is a director to watch. His script is fluent and well balanced; the direction never showy but to the point. It's a shame that good European films like Nachtgestalten don't get a general release in most countries while appalling creations like Code Inconnue do.
Reviewed by Horst_In_Translation 6 / 10

Occasional flaws, but overall successful

Reviewed by judokid 7 / 10

Pretty good for a film, even a german one...

I have just seen Nachtgestalten, and i think it was quite interesting,touching and surprisingly funny. It tolds the stories of three different couples during a night in Berlin. Good actors and a good skript, but there are also some needed clichés as the rain for dramatic tension and the naive farmer for comic relief. But after several years, when light comedies dominated the german cinema, it is refreshing to see it maturing. 7/10
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