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Lose Your Head

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Luis travels to Berlin for a weekend of partying and meets Viktor, a mysterious man who captivates him. Mistaken for Dimitri, Viktor’s missing ex-partner, Luis becomes entangled in Viktor’s controlling world, leading to a surreal experience where reality blurs. Inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared after a night at Berghain.

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Status: Released

Released Date: 2013-02-08

Runtime: 105 mins

Director: Patrick Schuckmann, Stefan Westerwelle

Writer: Patrick Schuckmann

Spoken language: English, Deutsch

Genres: Thriller

Original title: Lose Your Head

Production Companies: Mutter-Film Produktions

Production Countries: Germany

Reviews

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Geronimo1967
This is quite a complex thriller about "Luis" (Fernando Tielve) who heads to Berlin as a relatively young, open but naive young man. He is soon exposed to the grittier parts of the city and to dangerous and predatory scenarios, meeting the deceptively charismatic "Viktor" (Marco Mandic) as he and some new friends he has met try to search for their missing brother (whom "Luis" bears a considerable resemblance too). Now we descend into a spiral of self-feeding temptation as he slowly loses control - and his sense of reality. The two lead performances are well delivered and it's tautly directed with an entirely satisfactorily inconclusive ending.
2024-06-19

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