A housing company evicts its tenants, intending to turn their homes into luxury apartments.

Dietmar Heine, an ailing pensioner living in an old flat in former East Berlin, is unwilling to comply.

The day he is supposed to leave, his son Tobias returns home to find Dietmar quarrelling with their landlord.

The argument escalates, Dietmar shoots himself, and an angry Tobias takes the landlord and a police officer hostage.

Marie O'Sullivan, for The Movie Isle, called The Last Berliner a 'surprising gem' that 'manages to be funny, tense, sad and sympathetic at the same time'.