DIE ENDLOSE NACHT (PYJAMAKINO)

West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, 1962: air traffic is suspended due to fog. A dozen or so stranded passengers are forced to spend the night on the ground. In loosely connected episodes, the film paints a multi-faceted picture of encounters and conversations - for example between a penniless starlet and two questionable cavaliers, a farmer from Africa and an interested airport employee. The nightly round dance is also populated by a wife with an Italian lover, a fraudulent businessman and a Polish jazz band ...

Shot without a finished script in 45 nights after closing time in the Tempelhof check-in hall, THE ENDLESS NIGHT condenses into a realistic portrait of society. It is cast with characters whose often improvised dialogs had their ear to the pulse of the present. And with the businessman in search of money, the director could have been portraying himself: In order to realize the film without funding, Tremper took out a mortgage on his own home. (Text: Berlinale)

West Berlin's Tempelhof airport in 1962. The airport is socked in by fog and no planes can take off or land. A dozen or more passengers are stranded and have to spend the night in the airport. Loosely connected episodes make up a diverse whole of encounters and conversations - for instance, between a penniless starlet and two shady gentlemen, a farmer from Africa, and an airport employee looking to get married. Also among the denizens of this involuntary soirée are a wife with an Italian lover, a crooked businessman and a Polish jazz band... Will Tremper has created a soap opera with documentary underpinnings. Shot without a finished script over 45 nights, after closing time in Tempelhof's central hall, with original sound, The Endless Night gels into a realistic portrait of society. It is peopled with believable characters whose often-improvised dialogue seems perfectly in sync with the time. And the director might have been drawing a self-portrait with the character of the businessman in search of money - to make the film without subsidies, Tremper took out a mortgage on his own home. (Text: Berlinale) / German original version without subtitles.