Not even lost (and eventually regained) love, blocked or hazily-sketched out career paths, interesting living conditions (the hostel where they are first put up is filled with a riot of different nationalities each with their own quirks), and intermittent reminders of home.
Kaminer (Matthias Schweighofer), Mischa (Friedrich Mucke) and Andrej (Christian Friedel) are chasing the good life in Berlin and loving it all (image via )Īnd it seems nothing can dampen their spirits. Not that it works out quite as smoothly as they initially envisage, but buoyed by hope, powered by the promise of a new life, and with each other as unfailing moral support, they dive right into the exhilarating world of a city and country struggling to define itself after decades under Soviet rule. It has drawn people like moth to a flame throughout the history of humanity, with the downtrodden and beleaguered, the lost and the merely curious, pulling up sticks and heading for the bright lights of whatever promised land happened to be in vogue at the time.Īnd while Berlin in 199o, in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, may not look like any sort of Xanadu we’re with, to three young close-as-brothers friends from Russia – Wladimir Kaminer (Matthias Schweighöfer), Mischa (Friedrich Mücke) and Andrej (Christian Friedel) – it is a veritable paradise on earth, with opportunities ripe for the picking.
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