Dark Satellites

Dark Satellites

120 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 1, 2022

A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.

Dark Satellites

120 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 1, 2022

Dark Satellites
A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Warner Bros. Deutschland, MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH, MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Original title Die stillen Trabanten
Directors Thomas Stuber
Writers Clemens Meyer, Thomas Stuber

Cast

Martina Gedeck

as Christa

Nastassja Kinski

as Birgitt

Albrecht Schuch

as Jens

Lilith Stangenberg

as Aischa

Adel Bencherif

as Hamed

Andreas Döhler

as Mario

Charly Hübner

as Erik

Irina Starshenbaum

as Marika

Peter Kurth

as Hans

Eman Dwagy

as Mutter

Tropea Narain

as Tochter

Sascha Nathan

as Kneiper

Gisela Aderhold

as Kollegin

Anas Ouriaghli

as Hameds Freund

Yassin Trabelsi

as Hameds Freund

Hermann Beyer

as Marios Vater