Beck's Last Summer
(Becks letzter Sommer)
Year: 2015
Country:
GERMANY
Run Time:
95 minutes
U.S. PREMIERE
Robert Beck is a former musician, now miserably stuck in a teaching job he barely shows up for. Rauli is an outsider student with musical talent so powerful that when Beck hears him, it relights a flame that’s been dead for years. He takes the youngster under his wings, writing songs, setting up gigs, and recording a demo he passes along to his former bandmate, who now works at Universal Records. The problem is, the label loves Rauli but isn’t interested in Beck. Keeping this a secret from Rauli, Beck embarks on a mission to find another route to their success. In the process, he alienates his girlfriend, who is struggling with her own unfulfilled ambitions. What began as a kind gesture to help out a gifted teenager has now become one man’s obsessive battle for a second chance at a failed dream. When Rauli and Beck join a friend on a life-altering road trip, they discover they’ve both been hiding something. BECK’S LAST SUMMER is a profound and earnest dramedy, affirming that finding oneself can be a lifelong journey. (In English and German with subtitles) –E.F.
CIFF40 Screenings
Tower City Cinemas
Saturday, April 02, 2016 at 9:20 PM
Sunday, April 03, 2016 at 2:50 PM
- This screening is on Stand By.
Competition
Music Movies Competition
Director
Frieder Wittich
Filmography
"13 Semester" (2009), BECK'S LAST SUMMER (2015)
Producers
Uli Putz, Jakob Claussen
Screenwriting
Oliver Ziegenbalg, Frieder Wittich
Cinematography
Christian Rein
Principal Cast
Christian Ulmen, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Eugene Boateng, Friederike Becht, Fabian Hinrichs
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