Tom Tykwer Talks Kaleidoscopic, Politically-Charged Berlinale Opener ‘The Light’: “The Crisis Has Been Showing Its Face For A Decade & We’re Waking Up Now”
deadline.comTom Tykwer opens the Berlinale for a third time on Thursday with his dazzling snapshot of life in contemporary Berlin, taking stock of German society as the first quarter of the 21st century draws to a close.
It is his first feature-length film since 2016 Saudi Arabia-set drama A Hologram For The King starring Tom Hanks. Tykwer, who has spent the last decade immersed in the final years of Germany’s 1918 to 1933 Weimer Republic with hit series Babylon Berlin, has returned to the present with gusto.
He plunges his protagonists into a reality marked by digitization, globalization, climate change, job insecurity, global migration, conflict-driven displacement and rising political extremism, and watches them navigate this age of disruption.
Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz play chaotic, comfortably-off, late 40s couple Tim and Milena Engels, who are parents to 17-year-twins Frieda (Elke Biesendorfer) and John (Julius Gause), and eight-year-old Dio (Elyas Eldridge).
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