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Release Date:
December 1, 2022
Original Title:
Die stillen Trabanten
Alternate Titles:
Dark Satellites
Genres:
Drama | Romance
Production Companies:
Sommerhaus Filmproduktion
Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12
Runtime: 120
A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.
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Casting:
Anja Dihrberg
Costume Design:
Juliane Maier
Director:
Thomas Stuber
Director of Photography:
Peter Matjasko
Editor:
Julia Kovalenko
Kaya Inan
Makeup Designer:
Emilia Grund
Music:
Kat Frankie
Producer:
Sophie Cocco
Fabian Maubach
Jochen Laube
Production Design:
Jenny Rösler
Sound:
Kai Tebbel
Writer:
Clemens Meyer
Thomas Stuber
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