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Rembetiko Road

2014 · 80 min

A quiet, wearying drift through burnout and Berlin, blurring fiction and documentary into a slow, reflective ache.

Overview: Sonja has reached her limit. As a lawyer, she has been advocating for asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected. But the emotional and professional strain of this work has taken its toll—she is burned out. Now seeking a job with less responsibility, she encounters people who share their stories on camera. REMBETIKO ROAD moves between fiction and documentary, gradually painting an increasingly vivid portrait of life in Berlin - its everyday working realities and the individual’s place within the neoliberal economic system.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Work, isolation, identity, class
Content: Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: work
isolation
identity
class
politics
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Marc Ottiker
Written by: Sibylla Rasmussen
Starring: Sibylla Rasmussen, Gerry Jochum, Nike Fuhrmann, Raphael Washington, Regula Steiner-Tomic, Mario Fechner, Andree-Östen Solvik, Mehmet Yilmaz
Music: Knut Jürgens
Cinematography: Linas Burneika
Runtime: 80 min
Country: Germany
Languages: German