Cortex

Story

Two men, two lives, one fateful encounter: Moritz Bleibtreu’s directorial debut, for which he also wrote the screenplay, is a tense, labyrinthine psycho-thriller. Hagen (Moritz Bleibtreu) is suffering from phases in his sleep in which he can no longer tell the difference between dream and reality. The ailing relationship with his wife Karoline (Nadja Uhl) is also increasingly affected. Her affair with small-time crook Niko (Jannis Niewöhner) sets off a chain of events which will drastically change the lives of both men. A seemingly endless nightmare between reality and dream which ends in a pitiless spiral.

Director

MORITZ BLEIBTREU (*1971) lives in Hamburg and since 1998 has almost exclusively made cinema films. Among his best-known works are Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (1997), Lola rennt (1998), Soul Kitchen (2009) and Nur Gott kann mich richten (2017). He was awarded the Silver Bear for his role in Elementarteilchen at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.

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