Movie
Game Over
1996 · 82 min
A quiet, melancholic coming-of-age road movie that lingers on loneliness and small escapes, rewarding patient viewers with a raw emotional payoff.
- Directed by
- Igor Zaritzky
- Genres
- Drama, Tv movie
- Starring
- Richard Kropf, Rainer Winkelvoss, Corinna Kirchhoff
- Tagline
- You can’t outrun the past - even on a Game Boy.
- Overview
- 15-year-old Moritz lives with his father near East Berlin, helping at his gas station and drifting through life after his girlfriend leaves him. He skips school, hides in a crumbling house, and escapes into music, Game Boy games, and memories of his mother - believed to have died ten years ago. But a chance discovery reveals she’s alive and living in Hamburg. Moritz sets out to confront her and the truth.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Coming-of-age, family, identity, grief
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Igor Zaritzky
- Genres
- Drama, Tv movie
- Starring
- Richard Kropf, Rainer Winkelvoss, Corinna Kirchhoff
