Self-criticism of a bourgeois dog
A bourgeois dog confesses how he was transformed from being a filmmaker to being four-legged:
Unable to find financing for his film, JULIAN is forced to accept a job as a seasonal farmhand. At a
party, however, he makes the young Canadian expat CAMILLE believe that he's going to do research
for a communist fairy-tale film and offers her the leading part. To his great surprise, she decides to
accompany him, sparking off Julian's lurking romantic fantasies.
Thus they arrive at the deceitfully idyllic scene of an exploitative apple plantation. While Julian finds
the manual labour agonizing and fears the strange roommates in his humble container home, Camille
enthusiastically plunges into the alleged research and makes friends with HONG and SANCHO, two
credulous proletarians in pursuit of happiness. For Julian, it's getting more and more difficult to act the
communist filmmaker. And what's more, a hot-tempered model worker with American dreams gets in
his way, a mute monk with magical powers and a screw loose shows up, the owner of the plantation
accidentally gets killed, and an attempted revolution ends up in confusion. At this moment, however,
the sparrows in the trees come up with an unexpected plan...
Credits
Cast:
Julian Radlmaier – Julian
Deragh Campbell – Camille
Kyung-Taek Lie – Hong
Beniamin Forti – Sancho
Ilia Korkashvili – Mönch
Script:
Julian Radlmaier
Camera:
Markus Koob
Producer:
Kirill Krasovskiy
Editing:
Julian Radlmaier
Sound:
Kai Ziarkowski
Film info
Direction:
Julian Radlmaier
Genre:
fictional
Country of production:
Germany
Production Company:
Faktura Film in Ko-Produktion mit DFFB und RBB
Production:
2017
Shooting format:
Digital
Screening format:
1:1,375
Frame rate:
24 fps
Aspect ratio:
1:1,375
Sound format:
5.1
Language:
German and English
Version:
OV
Runtime:
99 min