Utopia

★★★★★

1983 · 3 h 18 min

Directed by Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Drama

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Cast

Non-professional actors

Credits

Written by: Manfred Grunert

Plot

Prostitutes in a Berlin brothel pass the days in fantasies and rituals, in a study of confinement.

Sinekatalog’s take

Sohrab Shahid-Saless's film shows Berlin prostitutes passing time in fantasies, rituals and arguments in a cold brothel. Claustrophobic and unsentimental, it is a quiet, fixed-camera study of confinement and routine.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (437 votes)
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