In Next Door, a famous actor living in the penthouse of a renovated Altbau in Berlin––complete with his own private elevator––has his life flipped upon confronting a seemingly unassuming neighbor at his local bar. The director is Daniel Brühl, probably the most recognizable German actor to emerge since the country’s reunification and even in villainous roles a generally endearing onscreen presence. Next Door is his first feature (Brühl gets credit as director and star) and swings for the fences in its attempts to address the idiosyncratic generational, geographical class divides of his adoptive city. It doesn’t quite come off.