BERLIN BOUNCER

David Dietl, who made his fiction feature debut with KÖNIG VON DEUTSCHLAND in 2013, has returned to the documentary genre for his portrait of Berlin’s most famous bouncers – Sven Marquardt, Frank Künster and Smiley Baldwin. The three men have been part and parcel of the capital’s club scene for more than 25 years – from the days after the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present day – but aren’t yet considering calling it a day even though life makes more demands on them as they turn 50.

Thanks to the bond of trust built up with his protagonists, Dietl is able to explore the fascination of Berlin night life over the past few decades from the inside and venture behind the glittering facade.