Bloodsuckers

OT: Blutsauger

Julian Radlmaier // Germany, 2021
Fiction Feature // FF2021
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Story

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.

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Director

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

Film type: Fiction Feature

Original language: German

Section: Hamburger Filmschau//FF2021

Production country: Germany

Produced: 2021

Runtime: 128 min

Language and subtitles: OV with English subtitles

Director: Julian Radlmaier

Screenplay: Julian Radlmaier

Cast: Alexandre Koberidze, Lilith Stangenberg, Alexander Herbst, Corinna Harfouch, Andreas Döhler, Daniel Hoesl, Mareike Beykirch, Kyung-Taek Lie, Darja Lewin Chalem u. v. a.

Producer: Kirill Krasovski

DoP: Markus Koob

Sound: Matthias Lempert

Editor: Julian Radlmaier

Music: Franui

Production design: Reinhild Blaschke

Costume design: Sara Wendt

Casting: Julian Radlmaier, Ulrike Müller, Sara Wendt, Bastian Gascho, Ewelina Rosinska

Commissioning Editor: Frank Tönsmann (WDR), Birgit Kämper (arte)

German Distributor: Grandfilm GmbH

World Sales: ARRI Medien

Production Company: faktura film

Co-Production: WDR/arte; The Post Republic; Maier Bros.; Ludwig Kameraverleih

Film contact: Patrick Horn, Grandfilm GmbH: ph@grandfilm.de

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