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In den Gängen (2018)
depressing mood is simply wonderfully realized
This movie is so close, from my own experience. Everything is really convincingly acted - the concepts, the atmosphere, the locations, right down to the smallest GDR toggle switch that still ekes out an existence in Bruno's old apartment, Bruno's stories about his old life as a long-distance truck driver and how he comes home to the cigarette factory and looks forward to going home - I've heard all that before from people who also did this job back then. The depressing mood is simply wonderfully realized, how melancholy and terribly dreary life can be when you don't have much left except your job and your colleagues, numbed by everyday life, without much airs and graces until the bitter end. The movie probably speaks from the soul of many. Unfortunately, a pearl among German films that is far too well hidden. Worth seeing.