Die stillen Trabanten

Shallow and rather uninteresting characters engage with other uninteresting, underdeveloped characters. Some of the actors employed are usually very good, Martina Gedeck, Charly Hübner, Peter Kurth, but they don't get to show their trade, due to really bad dialogue and story developments in their respective narrative. The film tries hard to evoke a sense of loneliness and depict lost characters, yet fails miserably in doing so, because the emotion is told, not felt. The camera finds some interesting scenes of the nightly Leipzig - as a mirror of the innermost feelings, but it sabotaged by the editing. The film wants to be melancholic, but hesitates to give the images the time they would need.

A truly bland film which aims high but falls short.