

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

Laura Tonke
Elfie

Mirosław Baka
Darius

Suzanne von Borsody
Mutter
Stefan Cammann
Edmund
Gustaw Barwicki
Gustav
Henry Marcinkowski
Dicker Henry

Beatrice Manowski
Karla
Lutz Weidlich
Polizist
Michael Krause
Polizist

Sophie Rois
Friseuse