During the spread of the corona pandemic, Nightlife appeared in German cinemas. The comedy with Elyas M’Barek ran for less than a month before the cinemas across Germany closed in mid-March 2020. Amazon is now bringing Prime Nightlife to the flat rate: you can stream the film at no extra charge since Thursday *.
New to Amazon Prime: What is Nightlife about?
Nightlife is a party comedy in best tradition of Hangover and Game Night: Normal protagonists like you and me are chased through one bizarre situation after another in a wild night. Director Simon Verhoeven mixes this escalating approach with romance.
The history: Milo (Elyas M’Barek) meets Sunny (Palina Rojinski) in the nightlife of Berlin. A date is designed to test the sizzling romance between them. However, the well thought-out evening for two gets out of hand when Milos’ chaos friend Renzo (Frederick Lau) comes along uninvited. The three throw themselves into “nightlife” where soon half the Berlin underworld is hot on their heels.
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Nightlife is one of the most successful German films of recent years
The party formula took hold at the German box office, where Til Schweiger comedies no longer bring in millions as a matter of course. Nightlife drew around 357,000 people to the cinemas on its opening weekend, reports Inside Kino. This resulted in a box office result of 3.2 million euros during the first four days. A total of 1.3 million people saw the film before the cinemas closed for a long period of time.
Nightlife brought the top result German Film Prize 2021 for the most popular film of the year. In addition, Nightlife received the Austrian film award Romy for the best screenplay. One continuation Despite its success, it is not planned at the moment.
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