The Distance Between You and Me and Her

As a young journalist, Marga gets a routine assignment to interview Anne, a fiery rock singer from Prenzlauer Berg in East Berlin. She arrives expecting a straightforward profile, but the scene shifts when Robert, an unpublished poet and Anne's ex, turns up and complicates the meeting. What was meant to be an article becomes tangled with unfinished feelings, artistic rivalry, and comic misunderstandings. Set against the squats, cafes, and punk clubs of 1980s Prenzlauer Berg, the film uses music and sharp, local humor to touch on social taboos like environmental concerns, while keeping the tone light and character-driven. Marga's curiosity moves from duty to personal involvement as she reacts to Anne's charisma and Robert's poems and raises her professional stakes.

Released in 1988, the German-language film was directed by Michael Kann and created by Stefan Kolditz. It stars Sylvia Rieger, Jörg Simonides, Kirsten Block, Klaus-Dieter Klebsch, and Jürgen Watzke, and is set in the late-GDR Prenzlauer Berg scene with soundtrack.

Documentation of the film's commercial performance is limited. It didn't reach wide international distribution, and available sources don't list notable box office earnings, so its impact at the ticket office appears to have been modest and mostly regional.

In East German context the movie stood out for bringing punk aesthetics and taboo topics onto screen, linking a Nina Hagen-like musical energy with discussions of pollution and social norms. For viewers interested in Prenzlauer Berg's pre-1990 subculture, it offers a period snapshot rather than a mainstream touchstone and politics.

Contemporary attention was limited, and user ratings are scarce and low, for example a 2.0/10 score from two votes. The film blends a romantic triangle with satire of bohemian life, punk music, and environmental concerns, so it's mainly of interest to niche viewers studying late GDR subculture and historical curiosity.