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Otto - or Up with Dead People

Deutschland Kanada 2007/2008 Spielfilm

A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is trying to finish "Up with Dead People," the epic political- porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that there is a wallet in his back pocket that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember a few details, including memories of his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.

Source: 58. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

 

Credits

Director

  • Bruce LaBruce

Screenplay

  • Bruce LaBruce

Director of photography

  • James Carman

Editing

  • Jörn Hartmann

Music

  • Mikael Karlsson

Cast

  • Jey Crisfar
    Otto
  • Katharina Klewinghaus
    Medea Yarn
  • Susanne Sachße
    Hella Bent
  • Christoph Chemin
    Maximilian
  • Guido Sommer
    Adolf
  • Gio Black Peter
    Rudolf
  • Jürgen Seipel
    Taxifahrer
  • Stefan Kuschner
    Ottos Vater
  • Nicholas Fox Ricciardi
    Junger Mann
  • Keith Boehm
    Mann mit Hut

Production company

  • Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion (Berlin)
  • Existential Crisis Production Inc. (CA)

Producer

  • Jürgen Brüning
  • Michael Huber
  • Jennifer Jonas
  • Bruce LaBruce
  • Jörn Hartmann

Alle Credits

Director

  • Bruce LaBruce

Assistant director

  • Sébastien M. Barat
  • Hendrik Schäfer

Screenplay

  • Bruce LaBruce

Director of photography

  • James Carman

Set design

  • Stefan Dickfeld (Szenenbild)

Make-up artist

  • Pascal Herr
  • Pascale Jean-Louis
  • Tan Binh Nguyen

Costume design

  • Rick Owens

Editing

  • Jörn Hartmann

Sound design

  • Jörn Hartmann

Sound

  • Diego Reinwald

Audio mixing

  • Lou Solakofski

Casting

  • Kathryn Brink

Music

  • Mikael Karlsson

Cast

  • Jey Crisfar
    Otto
  • Katharina Klewinghaus
    Medea Yarn
  • Susanne Sachße
    Hella Bent
  • Christoph Chemin
    Maximilian
  • Guido Sommer
    Adolf
  • Gio Black Peter
    Rudolf
  • Jürgen Seipel
    Taxifahrer
  • Stefan Kuschner
    Ottos Vater
  • Nicholas Fox Ricciardi
    Junger Mann
  • Keith Boehm
    Mann mit Hut
  • Olivia Barth
    Frau mit Burka
  • Marcel Schlutt
    Fritz Fritze
  • Stefanie Heinrich
    Alte Frau
  • John Heys
    Alter Mann
  • Max Di Costanzo
    Zombie

Production company

  • Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion (Berlin)
  • Existential Crisis Production Inc. (CA)

in co-production with

  • New Real Films (Toronto)

Producer

  • Jürgen Brüning
  • Michael Huber
  • Jennifer Jonas
  • Bruce LaBruce
  • Jörn Hartmann

Co-Producer

  • Leonard Farlinger
  • Bruce Bailey
  • Javier Peres
  • Terence Koh
  • Alfredo Ferran Calle
  • Claus Matthes

Unit production manager

  • Hendrik Schäfer

Original distributor

  • GMfilms (Berlin)
Duration:
93 min
Format:
DigiBeta
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Dolby
Screening:

Uraufführung (US): 19.01.2008, Park City, Sundance Film Festival;
Erstaufführung (DE): 12.02.2008, Berlin, IFF - Panorama;
Kinostart (DE): 11.09.2008

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (CA) Otto - or Up with Dead People

Versions

Original

Duration:
93 min
Format:
DigiBeta
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Dolby
Screening:

Uraufführung (US): 19.01.2008, Park City, Sundance Film Festival;
Erstaufführung (DE): 12.02.2008, Berlin, IFF - Panorama;
Kinostart (DE): 11.09.2008

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