STORY OF BERLIN

After making a series of highly visual and often unconventional shorts such as the award-winning NOW FOLLOWS and RHINO FULL THROTTLE, Erik Schmitt has now embarked on his feature debut, STORY OF BERLIN (working title), which employs many in-camera tricks and plays with various filming techniques.

Schmitt’s “regular” leading lady Marleen Lohse plays the Berlin tourist guide Kleo who had once been searching for a magical clock with her late father. When the adventurer Paul appears with a treasure map that may indicate the clock’s whereabouts, the two set off on a common quest – with Kleo using her special gift of contact with the city’s soul and many of its past celebrities...