A proletarian winter’s tale
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 séance 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.
Credits
Cast:
Natia Bakhtadze
Sandro Koberidze
Ilia Korkashvili
Lars Rudolph
Katja Weilandt
Willem Menne
Christoph Förster
Script:
Julian Radlmaier
Camera:
Markus Koob
Producer:
Kirill Krasovskiy
Editing:
Julian Radlmaier
Sound:
Stephan Franz
Benjamin Kalisch
Tom Dittrich
Film info
Direction:
Julian Radlmaier
Genre:
fictional
Country of production:
Germany
Production Company:
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
Production:
2014
Shooting format:
Red 4K
Screening format:
4:3
Frame rate:
24 fps
Aspect ratio:
1:1,375
Sound format:
5.1
Language:
German, Georgian, subtitles available in German, English
Version:
OmU
Runtime:
63