EIN PROLETARISCHES WINTERMÄRCHEN
A PROLETARIAN WINTER'S TALE
Three workers from Georgia 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
Writer, Director, Editor - Julian Radlmaier
Producer - Kirill Krasovski
Director of Photography - Markus Koob
Scenography - Paola Cordero Yannarella
Costume Design - Stephanie Traut, Maya Winter
Sound recording - Stephan Franz
Assistant Directors - Jan Bachmann, Asa Piefer
Sound design - Stephan Franz
Sound mix - Silvio Naumann
Color grading - Agnesh Pakozdi
Music - Han-Gyeol Lie
WITH
Alexandre Koberidze, Natia Bakhtadze, Ilia Korkashvili, Lars Rudolph, Willem Menne, Kyung-Taek Lie, Matilda Mester, Katja Weilandt, Christoph Förster
TECHNICAL ASPECTS
Germany 2014, Red 2K / DCP, Dolby 5.1, 1:1,37, 63 min
PRODUCTION
dffb, faktura film↩︎
AWARDS
- Audience Award, FICUNAM Mexico
- Artistic Contribution Award, Olhar de Cinema, Brazil
FESTIVALS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS
- IFF Rotterdam, Netherlands (Grand Tour)
- FICUNAM, Mexico City, Mexico (Int. Competition)
- Viennale, Austria
- Olhar de Cinema, Curitiba IFF, Brazil (Int. Competition)
- New Horizons Wroclaw, Poland
- Sevilla European Film Festival, Spain
- IFF Ljubljana, Slovenia (Int. Competition)
- Bildrausch Filmfestival Basel, Switzerland (Int. Competition)
- FICIC Cosquín, Argentina (Int. Competition)
- International Film Festival Spirit of Fire Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
- Arkipel Int. Documentary and Experimental FF Jakarta, Indonesia
- Zagreb International Human Rights Film Festival, Croatia
- Fresh Film Fest Prague, Czech Republic
- Festifreak La Plata, Argentina
- German Film Festival Bucharest, Romania
- Nürnberg Int. Human Rights Film Festival, Germany
- Underdox – Int. Documentary and Experimental FF München, Germany
- 2morrow Moscow Independent FF, Russia
- GegenKino Leipzig, Germany
- Berlin Art Film Festival, Germany
- Clair-obscur Festival Basel, Switzerland
- Filmhauskino Nürnberg, Germany
- Mikrokosmos Cinema Athens, Greece
- Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- Lichtblick Kino Berlin, Germany
- Kino Klub Fitil, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED REVIEWS
... see TEXTS/PRESS
TRAILER
Youtube↩︎
Poster artwork by Jan Bachmann↩︎