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Distributor underway with maiden theatrical release on Labyrinth Of Cinema.

Boutique US distributor Crescendo House has picked up Zhang Lu’s 2018 Busan world premiere Ode To The Goose and Julian Radlmaier’s debut and 2017 Rotterdam premiere Self-Criticism Of A Bourgeois Dog.

Ode To The Goose follows a man and a divorced woman who take a trip to Gunsan in South Korea where they stay at an inn run by a middle-aged man and his autistic daughter and the four become star-crossed lovers. The cast includes Park Haeil and Moon Sori.

Julian Radlmaier’s 2017 political comedy Self-Criticism Of A Bourgeois Dog...

With 2012’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sadly yet to have spawned a Marvel-style cinematic universe, Karl Marx and neck-chomping Dracula types might seen unlikely movie bedfellows.

But the two collide like never before in a 2021 Berlinale Encounters title that also boasts one of the festival’s most eye-catching film loglines.

According to Julian Radlmaier, director of the ‘vampire Marxist comedy’ Bloodsuckers, for all his theorizing about class struggle, Germany’s most famous political philosopher (and Beard of the Year winner 1869-76) wasn’t averse to dropping a bit of metaphorical vampirism into his works.

“I was actually reading Das Kapital, and I noticed that he ...

With 2012’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sadly yet to have spawned a Marvel-style cinematic universe, Karl Marx and neck-chomping Dracula types might seen unlikely movie bedfellows.

But the two collide like never before in a 2021 Berlinale Encounters title that also boasts one of the festival’s most eye-catching film loglines.

According to Julian Radlmaier, director of the ‘vampire Marxist comedy’ Bloodsuckers, for all his theorising about class struggle, Germany’s most famous political philosopher (and Beard of the Year winner 1869-76) wasn’t averse to dropping a bit of metaphorical vampirism into his works.

“I was actually reading Das Kapital, and I noticed that he ...

In his Bloodsuckers, Julian Radlmaier undertakes the extremely difficult task of creating an effective satire that is capable of deconstructing material that has grown to the level of a myth - in this case, Karl Marx's Capital and Marxism, understood broadly as an idea and political direction, and narrowly, as a kind of moral code, a set of rules. It's a job that requires either unprecedented genius, strong knowledge of all political and social nuances, or a blind stroke of luck. The young German director, who is known for his political deconstructions, tries to kill a few birds with one stone. He criticises, of course, capitalism and the bourgeoisie, but also points out the weaknesses of the intellectual and the working-class left.

Bloodsuckers follows the story of Baron-impostor, Ljowushka, a failed actor and fugitive from Soviet Russia...

The family animation will be released by Leonine in Germany this May.

German sales outfit Arri Media International has been racking up deals on its family animation The Ogglies: Welcome To Smellville.

On the eve of EFM, contracts have been signed with the US and Canada (Viva Pictures), Middle East (Salim Ramia & Co), Hungary (Ads), Denmark and Norway (Another World Entertainment), and Spain (Vercine). The company is also in final negotiations with Latin America.

Directed by Jens Møller, and Toby Genkel, the animated yarn is set for a German theatrical release in May through Leonine. It was adapted for the screen by WunderWerk,...