Shot with a hand-held camera and a small crew on a shoestring budget in one week, One Last Evening portrays a generation of Germans confronting universal dilemmas. A farewell dinner leads to an emotional crash that exposes undisclosed fears, desires and lies.
Hanover, one of the dozens of unremarkable midsized German cities that are special maybe to those living there, but few others - unlike the nation's hip capital, Berlin. The latter is where the film's protagonists, a young couple, will soon move to, lockdown-tired and ready for something new and hopefully better than what COVID-19 (politics) reduced their life to. By way of farewell, they invite some friends for a casual party in their now almost-empty flat. The problem is that quite a few of them don't come at all or arrive far too late, while unexpected visitors, including strangers, start to fill up the place.
"I wanted to show people struggling with themselves, to show what can be behind the facade. We come together and usually we have an opinion of others without really knowing them. The great thing about the medium of film is being able to take a character's perspective and try to understand it." (Lukas Nathrath)