Synopse
Julian Radlmaier’s new fiilms combines Marxism and vampirism and is a wonderfully ironic, absurd comedy. 1928: Soviet worker Ljowuschka (Aleksandre Koberidze) is cast as Trotsky for an Eisenstein film. His dreams of life as an actor are shot down when Trotsky falls out of favour with Stalin and he is cut out of the film. So he decides to try his luck in Hollywood. Before he can cross the Atlantic, he ends up in a mundane German resort, where he happens to meet the eccentric factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen (Lilith Stangenberg). A summer romance is in the air – the only problem is that there are vampires about. And Octavia is one of them.
Regie
JULIAN RADLMAIER (*1984) won several awards for Self-Criticism of a Bourgeios Dog, his graduation film at the dffb film school in Berlin. The screenplay for Bloodsuckers won the 2019 German Screenplay Prize.
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Info
Original Title: Blutsauger
International Title: Bloodsuckers
Category: Feature
Section: Hamburger Filmschau
Version & Subtitles: German OV with English subtitles
Director: Julian Radlmaier
Cast/Protagonists: Alexandre Koberidze, Lilith Stangenberg, Alexander Herbst, Corinna Harfouch, Andreas Döhler, Daniel Hoesl, Mareike Beykirch, Kyung-Taek Lie, Darja Lewin Chalem u. v. a.
Production country: Germany
Year of Production: 2021
Length: 128 min
Producer: Kirill Krasovski
Production company: faktura film
Casting: Julian Radlmaier, Ulrike Müller, Sara Wendt, Bastian Gascho, Ewelina Rosinska
co-production company: WDR/arte, The Post Republic, Maier Bros., Ludwig Kameraverleih GmbH
World Sales: ARRI Medien
Distributor: Grandfilm Gmbh
