# The Wrestler (2008)

**Genres:** Drama, Action, Sport

**Duration:** 109 min

**Age rating:** FSK 12

**IMDb:** [7.9](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/)

**Letterboxd:** [4.1](https://letterboxd.com/film/the-wrestler/)

**Rotten Tomatoes:** [Tomatometer: 99%, Popcornmeter: 88%](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_wrestler)

## Description

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

## Details

**Premiere:** 26 Feb 2009

**Director:** Darren Aronofsky

**Cast:** Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Todd Barry, Wass Stevens, Judah Friedlander, Ernest Miller, Dylan Keith Summers, Tommy Farra, Mike Miller, Marcia Jean Kurtz

**Countries:** United States

**Languages:** English

**Available versions:** OmU

**Open-air showtimes:** No

**Trailer:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjhGZhRJ3j0)

## Showtimes in Berlin in original language (OV, OmU, OmeU)

### 2026-05-16 (Saturday)

- **[Babylon Alexanderplatz](/cinemas/81-babylon-alexanderplatz.md) (Mitte):** [2026-05-16 18:00](https://babylonberlin.eu/programm/festivals/darren-aronofsky/10096-darren-aronofsky-the-wrestler)  (OmU)

### 2026-05-18 (Monday)

- **[Babylon Alexanderplatz](/cinemas/81-babylon-alexanderplatz.md) (Mitte):** [2026-05-18 20:00](https://babylonberlin.eu/programm/festivals/darren-aronofsky/10096-darren-aronofsky-the-wrestler)  (OmU)