Film
Me & Kaminski

New Films from Germany

Sun, 09/11/2016
11:00 AM Goethe-Institut Boston

A sleazy young journalist tries to give a new turn to his career by writing the biography of the forgotten but very much alive painter Kaminski – genius of the last century. While orchestrating the old artist’s disappearance to make the headlines with his future book, the young man ends up on an adventurous road trip with Kaminski…
The tragicomedy ME & KAMINSKI, based on Daniel Kehlmann’s eponymous novel, reunites director Wolfgang Becker with his star from GOOD BYE, LENIN!, Daniel Brühl, who plays the vain, but unsuccessful arts journalist Sebastian Zöllner. Sebastian visits the old man in his isolated home and promises to take him to see his childhood sweetheart just once more – little does the young journalist know that the crafty old man has his own agenda...
Special guest appearance by Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Germany/ Belgium 2015
120 min