Berlin Calling vs The Stories
The Stories has the higher audience score (7.4/10 against 6.8/10 for Berlin Calling). The Stories is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 45m. Berlin Calling is the older of the two (2008 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Berlin Calling
The Stories| Berlin Calling | The Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 2026 |
| Length | 1h 45m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | Egypt |
| Director | Hannes Stöhr | Abu Bakr Shawky |
| Main cast | Ernest Hausmann, Mehdi Nebbou, Corinna Harfouch, Erdal Yıldız, Rolf Peter Kahl | Nelly Karim, Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Amr Abed, Ahmed Kamal |
Synopsis
Berlin Calling
A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
The Stories
The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.
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