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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
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