Three young Georgians have to clean a castle in Berlin, where a German arms manufacturer's art collection is being set up for an exhibition. Of course, the proletariat isn't welcome at the opening party and they are banished to a servants' room in the attic. Downstairs, however, a splendid buffet attracts them - so why not just ignore the unfair prohibition and cross the line of class society? Didn't the French Revolution start over a piece of cake?
Telling each other unlikely tales ranging from an adventure of Saint Francis to a spiritualistic séance in the USSR, the three try to figure out whether class relations can be overcome, when all existing stories say they can't. They also have to deal with obstinate clouds, neo-liberal working conditions, apocalyptic petty bourgeois and agents of a late-capitalist conspiracy, which they defeat with a laziness one must call messianic. A proletarian winter's tale, in short. Screens twice together with Redemption.
- Director
- Julian Radlmaier
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2014
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 63'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- A Proletarian Winter's Tale
- Languages
- German, Georgian
- Producer
- Kirill Krasovskiy
- Production Company
- Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
- Sales
- Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
- Screenplay
- Julian Radlmaier
- Cinematography
- Markus Koob
- Editor
- Julian Radlmaier
- Production Design
- Paola Cordero Yannarella
- Sound Design
- Stephan Franz
- Cast
- Lars Rudolph, Natia Bakhtadze
- Website
- http://dffb.de/html/en/films/film/399