Film screening Oh Boy

Jan Ole Gerster / Germany 2012 / 1h28min / German with English subtitles
Cast: Tom Schilling, Friederike Kempter, Marc Hosemann, Katharina Schüttler, Justus von Dohnányi, Michael Gwisdek, Ulrich Noethen

Oh Boy is a self-deprecating portrait of a young man and his city. It addresses the desire to participate in life and the difficulty in finding one’s place. Niko is in his late 20s and recently dropped out of law school. He is drifting through the streets of Berlin, observing the people around him with curiosity as they manage their daily lives, oblivious to his own growing status as an outsider. One day everything changes, and Niko is forced to confront the consequences of his inaction. Its episode-like structure makes Oh Boy appear like a compilation of individual short films, yet each episode is connected with the rest. The director and author succeeds in compressing a cinematic “coming-of-age story” into the turbulent 24 hours in the life of a young man, at the end of which nothing will be as before.
 

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