- Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall. It goes back and forth between the Polaroid-tinted times before the reunification of Germany, when the film’s 13-year-old protagonists attended a Socialist school, and the washed-out bleakness of the early 1990s, when they try to come of age in a country they don’t necessarily recognize. As the film develops they will fall for drugs, gang violence and their own adolescent stupidity.