Goodbye Berlin

Goodbye Berlin
GermanTschick
Directed byFatih Akın
Written byLars Hubrich,
Hark Bohm,
Fatih Akin
Produced byMarco Mehlitz
CinematographyRainer Klausmann
Edited byAndrew Bird
Music byVince Pope
Production
company
Lago Film
Distributed byStudioCanal
Release dates
  • 12 September 2016 (2016-09-12) (World premiere)
  • 15 September 2016 (2016-09-15) (Germany)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Goodbye Berlin (Tschick; German: [ˈtʃɪk]) is a 2016 German comedy-drama film directed by Fatih Akın, based on Wolfgang Herrndorf's bestselling 2010 novel Tschick (released as Why We Took the Car in English-speaking countries). The film depicts two teenage outsiders from Berlin who steal a car and go on an eccentric roadtrip through Eastern Germany during the summer holidays. Goodbye Berlin received mostly positive reviews in Germany.