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

Zurab Rtveliasvili – Zurab

Bruno Derksen – Bruno

Anton Gonopolski – Anton

Johanna-Orsini-Rosenberg – Elfriede Gottfried

Mex Schlüpfer – Bauer

Script:

Julian Radlmaier

Camera:

Markus Koob

Editing:

Julian Radlmaier

Producer:

Kirill Krasovskiy

Set Decoration:

Merle Vorwald

Kostüm (Credit):

Natia Bakhtadze

Sara Wendt

Sound:

Kai Ziarkowski

Tondesign:

Christian Obermaier

Tobias Bilz

Produktionsleitung:

Hanna Cramer

Regieassistenz:

Jan Bachmann

Film info

Direction:

Julian Radlmaier

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Deutsch­land

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Faktura Film

RBB

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Nordmedia Mediengesellschaft Bremen / Niedersachsen

Production:

2017

Shooting format:

Digital

Screening format:

1:37,1

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:37,1

Sound format:

5.1

Language:

German, English

Version:

OV

Runtime:

99