Special: Flesh and Blood
Die toten Fische
Michael Synek
AUT 1989
83 min
V'15
Surreal existentialism in an authority-questioning parable between Kafka and Tarkowskij, based on a short story by Boris Vian. In muddy waters the subordinate fishes daily for stamps. Over steep staircases passing metro-ticket-inspectors and through the stinking sewerage he brings the stamps to his boss, only to be paid pittance and kept in perfidious dependency. A long spurned, now finally restored rediscovery about authoritarian capriciousness and painful journeys without salvation, framed in expressive black and white.
Credits
- Erwin Leder
- Johannes Weidinger
- Gebhard Swoboda
- Lisa Luginbühl
- Martin Schnellnast
- Michael Synek based on a story by Boris Vian
- Jiri Stibr
- Michel Portal
DCP
bw