What is Pingpong / Sleeper about?

Name: Pingpong / Sleeper
Genre: Drama

PINGPONG, 2006, 89 min. Dir. Matthias Luthardt. 16-year-old Paul (Sebastian Urzendowsky) turns up uninvited to visit his relatives. Having recently lost his father, Paul is searching for an ideal world, and he intrudes upon the seemingly ideal family. After rejecting him at first, his aunt Anna (Marion Mitterhammer) gradually gets him on her side. Paul is attracted to her. Only after it is too late does he realize that he has been drawn under her control, and is now at her mercy. SLEEPER (SCHLÄFER) 2005. Dir. Benjamin Heisenberg. Set at Munich’s University of Technology, assistant professor Johannes Mehrveldt befriends Farid Atabay, a colleague of Algerian background who is working on the same project. What his pal does not know is that Johannes was approached by the German secret service to report on Farid, who they suspect is a sleeper terrorist. Initially, Johannes refuses, but the seeds of doubt are sown.

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What is Pingpong / Sleeper about?: PINGPONG, 2006, 89 min. Dir. Matthias Luthardt. 16-year-old Paul (Sebastian Urzendowsky) turns up uninvited to visit his relatives. Having recently lost his father, Paul is searching for an ideal world, and he intrudes upon the seemingly ideal family. After rejecting him at first, his aunt Anna (Marion Mitterhammer) gradually gets him on her side. Paul is attracted to her. Only after it is too late does he realize that he has been drawn under her control, and is now at her mercy.
SLEEPER (SCHLÄFER) 2005. Dir. Benjamin Heisenberg. Set at Munich’s University of Technology, assistant professor Johannes Mehrveldt befriends Farid Atabay, a colleague of Algerian background who is working on the same project. What his pal does not know is that Johannes was approached by the German secret service to report on Farid, who they suspect is a sleeper terrorist. Initially, Johannes refuses, but the seeds of doubt are sown.