Rating
Genre
Black Comedy, Nonsense, Fantasy Worlds
Year
2014
Country
Germany
Original language
German, Georgian
Subtitles
English, Russian, Portuguese (PT), Portuguese (BR), Spanish
Runtime
63'
Julian Radlmaier
Three young Georgians have to clean a castle in Berlin, where a German armament manufacturer’s collection of contemporary art is being set-up for an exhibition. Of course, the proletariat isn’t welcome at the opening party and the three protagonists are banished to a small servants’ room in the attic. Downstairs, however, a splendid buffet attracts them – so why not just ignore the unfair prohibition and cross the demarcation line of class society? Didn’t the French Revolution start for a piece of cake, anyway?
Telling each other unlikely stories ranging from an adventure of Saint Francis to a spiritualistic seance in the Soviet Union, the three protagonists try to find an answer to this question: Can class relations be overcome, when all bequeathed stories say they can’t?
Besides that, they have to struggle with obstinate clouds, neo-liberal working conditions, apocalyptic petty bourgeois and the agents of a confusing late capitalist conspiracy, which they’ll all defeat with a laziness one must call messianic. A proletarian winter’s tale, so to speak.
Natia Bakthadze, Sandro Koberidze, Ilia Korkashvili, Lars Rudolph, Katja Weilandt, Willem Menne, Christoph Förster
Script: Julian Radlmaier; Photographer: Markus Koob; Editor: Julian Radlmaier; Sound: Stephan Franz, Benjamin Kalisch, Tom Dittrich; Costume: Maya Winter, Stephanie Traut
IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival
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