Nightlife by Simon Verhoeven

The next film to be screened in our series CINEMATHEK: Film Screening in Your Library is Nightlife, directed by Simon Verhoeven. 

Mio who is a bartender has decided to settle down with a dream woman and have his own bar. Before that can happen, however, he still has to convince the woman of his dreams of his plan and raise the required finances – by credit or with a cocaine deal? A high-spirited romantic comedy about the nightlife of Berlin.

Night Life
by Simon Verhoeven
2020 | 115 min. | German with English subtitles
13.10.2023 | 2.30 p.m. & 6.30 p.m.  
14.10.2023 | 2.30 p.m.

© Alan Ovaska Simon Verhoeven is a director, screenwriter and actor. He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and film directing at the Tisch School of Arts in New York. As an actor, he has worked with directors such as Sönke Wortmann, Doris Dörrie and Roland Suso Richter.

For his film Männerherzen, Simon Verhoeven was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize 2009 for Best Screenplay. For Männerherzen 2, Simon Verhoeven was awarded Germany's biggest media prize, the Bambi, for best film nationally. Welcome to the Hartmanns was released in November 2016 and reached three million viewers in Germany by the end of the year.