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Bookmark this pageThe Grass Is Always Greener (1989)
Director: Michael Klier
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Klier's dour black-and-white feature stars Baka (from Kieslowski's Short Film About Killing) as the gentle but alienated youth who tires of the futility of his eked-out existence in depressed Poland - changing money, fencing cheap stolen goods - and hotfoots it to Berlin while he prepares his emigration plans for the US. The film scores in its documentary-style comparative tour around the low dives and low-lives of the marginals and petty criminals found in the dead-end parts of Warsaw and West Berlin, but suffers overly from miserabilism, muted performances, and the lack of an overall organising perspective.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Klier
Producer: Daniel Zuta
Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Marta Klubowicz, Michael Krause, Josef Zebrowski, Anna Pastewka, Anja Klein full cast
Duration: 79 mins
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