Constantin Film 22 Bahnen
Directed by Mia Maariel Meyer · 2025
22 Bahnen (2025) has a 65% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.
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Is 22 Bahnen worth watching?
Yes — 22 Bahnen earns a 65% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.
Critics Consensus
Adapted faithfully from Caroline Wahl's bestselling novel, this sister drama earns praise for Luna Wedler and Laura Tonke's performances even as critics find its swimming-pool symbolism and flashback structure a little too tidy for the raw material it's handling.
Celluloid Critics Consensus
Audiences (71%) responded more warmly than critics (61%).
What is 22 Bahnen about?
Tilda spends her days finishing a math thesis, working a supermarket checkout, and raising her ten-year-old sister Ida while shielding her from their alcoholic mother. When a professor offers Tilda a promising doctoral position in Berlin, she has to decide whether pursuing her own future means leaving her sister behind. Long laps in the local pool become the one place she can think clearly.
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