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A PROLETARIAN WINTER´S TALE

EIN PROLETARISCHES WINTERMÄRCHEN

By Julian RADLMAIER

Comedy - Completed 2014

A absurdist fairy tale about three young Georgians who have to clean a German castle for an exhibition and get revolutionary ideas.

Rotterdam IFFR 2014

Viennale 2014

Guadalajara FICG 2015

International Feature

FICUNAM 2015

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Comedy, First film
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN, GEORGIAN
- Duration
- 63 mn
- Director(s)
- Julian RADLMAIER
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-888C-0000-O-0000-0000-2
- Synopsis
- Three young Georgians 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 seance 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.