A man with weeks to live decides to spend them going somewhere he's never been.
Valeri Sikorski's doctors have told him what Chernobyl already started. Months, maybe weeks. He decides to make it to England.
He stops in Berlin first, to collect his best friend Victor. Victor is missing. The search is the film.
Directed by Achim von Borries.
German Film Critics Award · Best Screenplay, 2002 — Karin Åström, Achim von Borries, Maria von Heland
German Film Critics Award · Best Cinematography, 2002 — Jutta Pohlmann
Audience Award + Don Quixote Award — Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema, 2000
Max Ophüls Award nomination, 2001
Fifteen international wins in total
„Eine poetisch-einfühlsame, hochsensible Reflexion über Gefühlswelten und Stimmungen — stilsicher gelingt von Borries der Spagat zwischen realistischem Stimmungsbild und philosophischer ‚Weltbeschreibung‘. Eine kleine Gegenwartsgeschichte, konsequent und anrührend zugleich mit philosophischen Fragen nach Identität und Glück verknüpft."
— Filmdienst, Horst Peter Koll
