Blutsauger
Bloodsuckers
August 1928: while workers and farmers search "Das Kapital" for answers to some mysterious vampire bite marks, a self-proclaimed baron enters the life of the charming heiress Miss Flambow-Jansen, as well as her luxury Baltic residence. As it turns out, he is actually a proletarian impostor, forced to escape from the Soviet Union because of a political incident involving no less than Sergei Eisenstein and Stalin himself.
Julian Radlmaier takes his trademark "ironical materialism" even further, with a new mixture of ideology and cinephilia that gives rise to a dialectic fable-cum-formalist-comedy, assuming that the Marxist description of the capitalist as a vampire is far from metaphorical. And while the entire film features historical inaccuracies that highlight the subject’s current relevance, it is the finale, with its abrupt detour into manipulation of reality and xenophobia, which really emphasises how injustice and lies prevailed then as now – only now more than ever. The oppressed continue to aim their class violence in the wrong direction, once again offering their necks to the oppressors' fangs.
Source: 71. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Cast
- Ljowuschka
- Octavia
- Jakob
- Tante Erkentrud
- Dr. Humburg
- Bonin
- Jewka
- Algensammler
- Rosa
- Bruno
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Script supervisor
Screenplay
Director of photography
Assistant camera
Colour grading
Lighting design
Art director
Production design
Set design
Property master
Stand-by props
Costume design
Editing
Sound editor
Sound design
Sound
Sound assistant
Audio mixing
Casting
Cast
- Ljowuschka
- Octavia
- Jakob
- Tante Erkentrud
- Dr. Humburg
- Bonin
- Jewka
- Algensammler
- Rosa
- Bruno
- Eisenstein
- Apotheker
- Bauer
- Hans
- Franz
- der eine Polizist
- Seemann
- Arbeiter Schnösl
- Prinzessin XY
- Apothekerin
- Touristin
- Tourist
Production company
in co-production with
in association with
Producer
Producer (TV)
Unit production manager
Location manager
Production coordinator
Original distributor
Funding
Shoot
- 29.07.2019 - 22.09.2019: Eckernförde (Eckenförder Bucht), St. Peter-Ording, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Faßberg, Bochum, Solingen und Moskau
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.04.2021, 203871, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Voraufführung (DE): 01.03.2021 - 05.03.2021, IFF Berlin - Industry Event - Encounters, VoD;
Uraufführung (DE): 17.06.2021, Berlin, IFF Summer Special - Encounters, ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum;
Kinostart (DE): 12.05.2022
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Blutsauger
- Weiterer Titel (eng) Bloodsuckers - A Marxist Vampire Comedy
- Untertitel (DE) Eine marxistische Vampirkomödie
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.04.2021, 203871, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Voraufführung (DE): 01.03.2021 - 05.03.2021, IFF Berlin - Industry Event - Encounters, VoD;
Uraufführung (DE): 17.06.2021, Berlin, IFF Summer Special - Encounters, ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum;
Kinostart (DE): 12.05.2022
Awards
- Silberner George, Spezialpreis der Jury
- Deutscher Drehbuchpreis, Bestes unverfilmtes Drehbuch