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Berlin Film Festival to Open With Tom Tykwer’s ‘The Light’ Starring Lars Eidinger


Tom Tykwer's "The Light" will open the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.

The film marks Tykwer ’s return to the big screen after seven years and four seasons as writer and director of the hit series “Babylon Berlin.” “The Light” stars Lars Eidinger (“Dying,” “Persian Lessons,” “Personal Shopper,” “The Clouds of Sils Maria”), Nicolette Krebitz (“AEIOU,” “Wild”), Elke Biesendorfer, Julius Gause and Elyas Eldridge Set in present day in Berlin, the movie draws the portrait of a modern family between collapse and new beginnings and deals with the big issues of our times, in a world that is reeling.

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