Die Theorie von Allem

By way of its stirring soundtrack, Timm Kröger’s spellbinding thriller immediately draws us into an eerie world superbly shot in black and white, where the danger lurking in the depths of a mountain will eventually shatters our entire perception of space and time. It’s 1962 and Johannes Leinert, a gifted Berlin physics student, is attending a high-profile quantum mechanics congress at a hotel in the Swiss Alps. When a physics professor is murdered and radioactivity starts leaking from a forgotten mountain shaft, this auspicious trip quickly turns into a nightmare. As Johannes gradually loses his grip on reality, he comes across some shadowy Nazi-era conspirators, meets two odd village children and falls for Karin, the mysterious hotel pianist, in a playfully spiralling narrative where the dead can no longer be distinguished from the living.
Yet alongside all this, DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM is also a brilliant, postmodern cinephile’s delight. Conceived as an eclectic homage to film history, Kröger’s sophisticated mise-en-scène, creates a cinematic multiverse of unease that we, like Johannes, must feel our way through until its final glorious frame, where the chimera of eternal love briefly flickers and offers us a last glimmer of hope.(Maria Giovanna Vagenas)

In the presence of Timm Kröger, Olivia Ross as well as Jan Bülow (on the 30th of October) and members of the team.

Timm Kröger: SHERIFF – VOM SCHWEINEHIRTEN ZUM SUPERSTAR (2010, K), DAS LEICHT BEUNRUHIGENDE SCHAUKELN BEI DER FAHRT INS TAL (2011), 16 × DEUTSCHLAND: RHEINLAND-PFALZ (2013, K), ZERRUMPELT HERZ (2014)