Desperado City

Desperado City tells the story of beings who, in order to forget reality, seek shelter in dreams. The reality is Hamburg, a city which manifests itself in brutality, in places where the losers, the rebels, the non-conformists hang out. They are driven into dead-ends, back-streets, and cellars where they find their backs against the wall. Shelters which in reality are traps closing in on them.

I wanted to make a film about a city, a surroundings in which I myself had grown up. Hambourg is a hard but exuberant city. It’s not the architecture which tells you this, it’s in the air. It penetrates the relationships between people with aggressiveness, a strange odor of work and sleepless nights, and with a will to succeed which could lead to the top or end tragically. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs