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

Poster artwork by Jan Bachmann↩︎

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