Abschied in Berlin

This attempt by two old people to escape is untraceable, even confused, but not unfunny. It has become too cramped in the Berlin apartment shared by three generations of a Chilean immigrant family when the paralyzed grandfather (Bernhard Veith) decides to return to his Chilean homeland. Under the suspicious gaze and accompanied by impotent attempts to act by the other family members, he sets off with his wife (Käte Jaenicke) and an uncle. Their odyssey through Berlin lasts exactly one day. Full of poetry, the director processes his own life experiences and thus draws a story whose serious claim is not to be misjudged even by the idiosyncratic humor.