Blutsauger
Bloodsuckers
Having delighted and provoked Viennale audiences with such distinctive blends of politics, poetry, and dry comedy as EIN PROLETARISCHES WINTERMÄRCHEN (2014), German writer-director Julian Radlmaier returns with another of his idiosyncratic dissections of European socialist intellectualism. Its English title carrying the neatly descriptive subtitle “a Marxist vampire comedy”, this crisply-shot period piece unfolds in 1928 at an upscale resort on the Baltic coast. Here spoiled heiress Octavia Flambow-Jansen is holidaying with her passionately devoted servant, when penniless Russian aristocrat Baron Koberski – presenting himself as an exile from the new USSR – shows up out of the blue. Complications and revelations rapidly (and sometimes farcically) ensue, including an unexpected flashback cameo from none other than epoch-making Soviet auteur Sergei Eisenstein. Sleepy-eyed Koberidze, himself a writer-director of considerable talent (RAS VKHEDAVT, RODESAC CAS VUKUREBT), displays quietly impressive the spian skills as the enigmatic “Baron” in this deftly elegant, deceptively acute film whose every element is weighed up and calculated for maximum humorous and theoretical effect. (Neil Young)
In the presence of Julian Radlmaier and Alexandre Koberidze.
AUDIO DESCRIPTION FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE
Audio description will be provided for the screening 24.10., 8.30 pm, Urania. More info here.
Julian Radlmaier: EIN GESPENST GEHT UM IN EUROPA (2013), EIN PROLETARISCHES WINTERMÄRCHEN (2014), SELBSTKRITIK EINES BÜRGERLICHEN HUNDES (2017)
- Alexandre Koberidze - Baron Koberski
- Lilith Stangenberg - Octavia Flambow-Jansen
- Alexander Herbst - Jakob
- Corinna Harfouch - Aunt Erkentrud
- Andreas Döhler - Dr. Humburg
- Daniel Hoesl - Bonin
- Kyung-Taek Lie - Seaweed collector
- Darja Lewin Chalem - Rosa
- Mareike Beykirch - Jewka
- Bruno Derksen - Bruno
- Anton Gonopolski - Eisenstein
- Michael Baute - Farmer
- Julian Radlmaier
- Markus Koob
- Andreas Hildebrandt
- Julian Radlmaier
- Franui
- Reinhild Blaschke
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