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Drama

22 Bahnen

Directed by Mia Maariel Meyer · 2025

Quick Verdict

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.

65%
Celluloid Score Recommended

Averaged from 5 sources

61% Critic Score
71% Audience
57 Metascore
★★★☆☆ Letterboxd 3.3
6.9 IMDb /10
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Runtime
1h 42m

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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