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Downhill City (1999) [N/A]

Release Date:
June 28, 1999

Original Title:
Downhill City

Alternate Titles:
Almas perdidas en la ciudad

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Luna-Film
Nelonen
Talent House
ZDF

Production Countries:
Finland | Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 103

Overview from TheMovieDB

A handful of disparate people in Berlin are drawn to the same residential hotel in the drama Downhill City. Finnish musician Artsi heads to Berlin in hopes of hitting the big time; needing a place to stay, he takes a room at the Downhill City Hotel and ties to find a market for his music. Meanwhile, another Downhill Hotel resident, aspiring author Fabien, meets a former convict named Sascha who has nowhere to stay and offers to take him in. Peggy, who works at a fast-food restaurant, is unhappy with her boyfriend Hans and finally kicks him out. Peggy meets Artsi when he stops by the burger stand one day, while Hans (who ends up crashing with Sascha and Fabien) starts a new relationship of his own with Doris.

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Production

Art Direction:
Julia Dehoff

Assistant Editor:
Julia Merle Hoffmeister

Co-Producer:
Johannes Lassila

Costume Design:
Peter Pohl

Director:
Hannu Salonen

Director of Photography:
Stephan Wagner

Editor:
Julia Oehring

Hairstylist:
Sybille Eichborn
Elzbieta Bumbul

Makeup Artist:
Elzbieta Bumbul
Sybille Eichborn

Producer:
Gudrun Ruzicková-Steiner

Production Manager:
Klaus Dzuck

Sound:
Alexandre Leser
Andreas Schaffer
Quintus Kannegiesser
Klaus-Peter Schmitt

Sound Editor:
Klaus-Peter Schmitt

Sound Effects Editor:
Peter Roigk

Writer:
Hannu Salonen

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