Post Empire

Sal has the war within him. And he doesn't want anyone to touch his face. He sometimes does dirty and risky jobs for his boss. When he meets the charismatic Sasha, he screws up an important coup and gets a taste of his boss's disturbing violence. Sal goes into hiding. For Sasha's sake, he gets involved in a heady tour de force with her friends Andy and Lucy, which causes Sal to undergo an incredible metamorphosis. Together they get lost in a labyrinth of drugs, sex, fears, violence and disorientation. Delicate and cruel, real and surreal, terrifying and strangely funny, love must be reinvented, real life lies elsewhere. But when his boss's henchmen track down the four, defenseless, at an old farmhouse, a massacre is imminent.

Credits

Cast:

Daniel Strässer – Sal

Annina Walt – Lucy

Susann Mertz – Sasha

Gerdy Zint – Gerdy

Johanna Ingelfinger – Jenny

Malik Adan – Julian

Script:

Günther Franke

Josa-David Sesink

Camera:

Phillip Kaminiak

Editing:

Günther Franke

Maximilian Duwe

Producer:

Simon Lubinski

Christopher Kane

Film info

Direction:

Günther Franke

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, gefördert durch das Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Production:

2021

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

DCP

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

2048x856

Sound format:

Stereo

Language:

German with English subtitles

Version:

OV

Festivals:

19. achtung berlin Filmfestival (12.-19.04.2023)

Festival de Cine Fantástico de Sant Boi de Llobregat “FANTBOI” (11.-14.07.2024)

Runtime:

103 min