A Stroll to Syracuse

Name: A Stroll to Syracuse
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 2026-08-20
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Lina Beckmann, Mélanie Fouché, Tim Ehlert, Jens Münchow, Nina Vorbrodt

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Release Date

8/20/2026

Runtime

97 mins

Genres

Drama Comedy

Overview

In the middle of his life, Paul Gompitz from Rostock makes the decision to travel to Syracuse in Sicily. He is driven to follow in the footsteps of the poet Johann Gottlieb Seume. But: Paul lives in the GDR, behind the most annoying border in the world. His plan is impossible by legal means. So he has to prepare an escape.

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Original Language

German

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A middle-aged man in Cold War East Germany pursues an impossible dream by escaping to retrace a poet's footsteps to Sicily, balancing the weight of historical constraint with the lightness of personal longing. It's a film about yearning that finds both absurdity and tenderness in one man's stubborn refusal to be confined.