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''The Last Berliner'' (Der letzte Mieter) is a 2018 German hostage drama film set in contemporary Berlin. It won the award for the Best Feature Film at the 5th
Manchester International Festival The Manchester International Festival is a biennial international arts festival, with a specific focus on original new work, held in the English city of Manchester and run by Factory International. The festival is a biennial event, first taking ...
in July 2019.


Plot

A housing company evicts its tenants, intending to turn their homes into luxury apartments. Dietmar Heine, an ailing pensioner living in an old flat in former East Berlin, is unwilling to comply. The day he is supposed to leave, his son Tobias returns home to find Dietmar quarrelling with their landlord. The argument escalates, Dietmar shoots himself, and an angry Tobias takes the landlord and a police officer hostage. The film follows the three of them, as Tobias tries to stop the evictions, and the police try to save the hostages.


Critical reception

Marie O'Sullivan, for ''The Movie Isle'', called ''The Last Berliner'' a 'surprising gem' that 'manages to be funny, tense, sad and sympathetic at the same time'.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Last Berliner 2018 films German crime drama films 2010s German films