The Prisoner of St. Petersburg (1989)

A low-key drama about a disturbed young man whose reality shifts between the present and the past - specifically the worlds of the great Russian writers Gogol and Dostoyevsky and the deserted streets of Berlin by night the 'prisoner' of St Petersburg is Jack who arrives in Berlin penniless, dazed and confused, armed only with quotes from his literary heroes and a head full of delusions.