Bloodsuckers

Name: Bloodsuckers
Director: Julian Radlmaier
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 2 h 5 min
Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangenberg, Andreas Döhler, Alexandre Koberidze, Daniel Hoesl

5.9/10

2h5min

Comedy

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+4,183

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A Soviet worker in exile poses as a wealthy baron in a glamorous seaside resort, encountering vampires.

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Why watch this film?

Bloodsuckers is an auteur film as singular, political, and absurd as its title suggests. Set in 1928, the plot begins with a reading club of young bourgeois who read Marx's Capital and aim to mobilize the working class against the bourgeoisie that 'sucks the blood of its victims.' The occasion coincides with an eccentric and powerful bourgeois woman (Lilith Stangenberg) hosting a Soviet refugee friend, Baron Kobersky (played by filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze, from the wonderful What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?), who is being pursued by Stalinism. Over the course of just over two hours, and through a visual and comedic style reminiscent of Jacques Tati and Wes Anderson, the comedy highlights the faults, hypocrisies, absurdities, and paradoxes of both early 20th-century communism and contemporary capitalism—nearly 100 years later—both exhibiting an inexorable voracity for the common people. It's a fun journey, as long as one can embrace the nihilism of its conclusions, which permeate its eventual narrative, logical, and visual chaos.

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1928: Lyovuschka, a Soviet worker, is cast in the role of Trotsky for Eisenstein‘s latest film, but quickly finds his dreams of an actor‘s life shattered when Trotsky falls into Stalin‘s disfavor. Exiled from his homeland, he poses as a wealthy baron and finds himself stuck in a glamorous seaside resort in awaiting a barge that will take him to Hollywood. A summer romance kicks off when he meets the eccentric factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen - it’s just too bad there are vampires around.