Return to Go

Return to Go

90 mins | Comedy | March 22, 2001

After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, but promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former East Berlin (its bulidings, cars, people & culture), Sam develops a "family" for the new millenium, for the new generation of post-drug cocktail AIDS victims. The fragile "family" he forms includes his on-again-off-again boyfriend Rainer, and his best friend Bastl with his latest fling, Mike. Like the old, schmaltzy East German songs which Sam is recording, the sweet innocence of the characters struggle to prevail, the misfortunes of the characters nothwithstanding.

Return to Go

90 mins | Comedy | March 22, 2001

Return to Go
After Sam, a penniless Afro-German singer, discovers he's HIV positive, he gets utterly drunk, spends a few miserable days, but promptly falls (back) in love. Amidst a crumbling former East Berlin (its bulidings, cars, people & culture), Sam develops a "family" for the new millenium, for the new generation of post-drug cocktail AIDS victims. The fragile "family" he forms includes his on-again-off-again boyfriend Rainer, and his best friend Bastl with his latest fling, Mike. Like the old, schmaltzy East German songs which Sam is recording, the sweet innocence of the characters struggle to prevail, the misfortunes of the characters nothwithstanding.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers
Original title Zurück auf Los!
Directors Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss
Writers Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss

Cast

Michael Ande

as PKW-Fahrer

Markus Böttcher

as Verkäufer

Dieter Bach

as Rainer

Matthias Freihof

as Bastl

Paul Gilling

as Mike

Susanne Böwe

as Uschi

Doris Dörrie

as Zahnärztin

Susann Uplegger

as Kellnerin