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BLUTSAUGER
BLOODSUCKERS
1928: Soviet worker Lyovushka is cast to play the Bolshevik revolutionary Leo Trotsky in a film by Sergei Eisenstein. Unfortunately, his dreams of a movie career in Moscow are shattered when the real Trotsky falls out of favor with Stalin and all his scenes have to be cut from the film. Lyovushka want to try his luck in Hollywood and flees the country, but gets stuck halfway at a fashionable German seaside resort – disguised as a wealthy aristocrat, but without a dime in his pocket. During a stroll on the beach, he meets the eccentric young factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen, on vacation with her awkward servant Jakob. A summer romance is in the offing. Too bad there are vampires terrorizing the area...
Poster artwork by Good Hands↩︎
CREDITS
Writer, Director, Editor - Julian Radlmaier
Producer - Kirill Krasovski
Director of Photography - Markus Koob
Scenography - Reinhild Blaschke
Costume Design - Sara Wendt
Hair & Make-up Design - Christian Fritzenwanker
Sound recording - Andreas Hildebrandt
Assistant Director - Ewelina Rosinska
Dramaturgy - Markus Nechleba
Sound design - Christian Obermaier
Sound mix - Matthias Lempert
Color grading - Dirk Meier
Music - Franui
Production manager: Clara Gerst
Commissioning editors: Frank Tönsmann (WDR), Birgit Kämper (Arte)
Full credits on Filmportal↩︎
WITH
Alexandre Koberidze, Lilith Stangenberg, Alexander Herbst, Corinna Harfouch, Danie Hoesl, Andreas Döhler, Kyung-Taek Lie, Darja Lewin, Mareike Beykirch, Anton Gonopolski, Michael Baute, Bruno Derksen, Matilda Mester, Johannes Lehmann, Martin Hansen, Felipe Amaya Gonzales, Marie Rathscheck, Christopher Kane, Ira Kane, Ludwig Sporrer, Katja Weilandt, Markus Nechleba, Mex Schlüpfer.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS
Germany 2021, Digital / DCP, Dolby 5.1, 1:1,66, 128 min
PRODUCTION
faktura film↩︎ in co-production with WDR / arte, The Post Republic, Maier Bros., Ludwig Kameraverleih
FUNDING
German Ministry of Culture - BKM, DFFF, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Film - und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft mbH
WORLD SALES
DISTRIBUTION
Germany (Grandfilm↩︎), Austria (Filmgarten↩︎),
USA (Crescendo House↩︎)
AWARDS
- German Screenplay Award (Golden Lola)
- IFF Moscow - Special Jury Award (Silver St. George)
- Berlinale Kompagnon Fellowship
FESTIVALS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS
- Berlinale, Germany (Encounters Competition)
- IFF Rotterdam, Netherlands (Harbour)
- Viennale, Austria
- Mostra de Sao Paulo, Brazil (New Filmmakers Competition)
- Sevilla EFF, Spain (Las Nuevas Olas Competition)
- New Horizons Wroclaw, Poland
- IFF Riga, Latvia (Int. Competition)
- CPH Pix, Denmark
- Molodist IFF Kyiv, Ukraine
- IFF Moscow, Russia (Int. Competition)
- Ankara IFF, Turkey
- Bildrausch Filmfest Basel, Switzerland (Int. Competition)
- Filmfest Hamburg, Germany
- Scanorama Vilnius, Lithuania
- Mammoth Lakes FF, USA (Int. Competition)
- FICIC Cosquín, Argentina (Int. Competition)
- Underdox Munich, Germany
- Nürnberg Human Rights Film Festival, Germany (Int. Competition)
- New Holland Island IFF Sankt Petersburg, Russia
- Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany
- GoetheFEST Belgrad, Niš, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Berlinale Special Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Croatia
- German Film Festival, Cinémathèque Luxemburg
- Semana de Cine Aleman, Mexico
- First City Film Festival Kansas, USA
- Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt, Germany
- Cineteca Madrid, Spain
- Columbia University, NYC, USA
- Yale University, New Haven, USA
- Phantoms of the Night. 100 Years Nosferatu. Staatliche Museen Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Germany
- Kino Rex Bern, Switzerland
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
- Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- Oldenburg University, Germany
- Conne Island, Leipzig, Germany
- Schauspielhaus Erfurt, Germany
SELECTED REVIEWS
...see TEXTS/PRESS
TRAILER
Vimeo↩︎
SCREENPLAY AS BOOK
Alternative poster artwork by Jan Bachmann↩︎
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