BLUTSAUGER
BLOODSUCKERS
2021
127 min
Dir. Julian Radlmaier
1928: Soviet worker Lyovushka is cast to play the Bolshevik revolutionary Leo Trotsky in a film by Sergei Eisenstein. Unfortunately, his dreams of a movie career in Moscow are shattered when the real Trotsky falls out of favor with Stalin and all his scenes have to be cut from the film. Lyovushka want to try his luck in Hollywood and flees the country, but gets stuck halfway at a fashionable German seaside resort – disguised as a wealthy aristocrat, but without a dime in his pocket. During a stroll on the beach, he meets the eccentric young factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen, on vacation with her awkward servant Jakob. A summer romance is in the offing. Too bad there are vampires terrorizing the area...
*Berlinale Berlin International Film Festival 2021 Section Encounters
*International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Section Harbour
*Moscow International Film Festival 2021 Main Competition
*Mostra de São Paulo International Film Festival 2021 New Filmmakers Competition
*CPH Pix 2021 Copenhagen
*Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo 2021 Las Nuevas Olas Competition
*Viennale Vienna International Film Festival 2021
*New Horizons International Film Festival Wroclaw 2021
*Riga International Film Festival 2021 Int. Competition
*Molodist IFF Kyiv 2021
*Hamburg Film Festival 2021
*Ankara IFF
*Bildrausch Filmfest Basel Int. Competitio
*Scanorama Vilnius, Lithuania
*Mammoth Lakes FF, USA Int. Competition
*FICIC Cosquín, Argentina Int. Competition
*Underdox Munich
*Nürnberg Human Rights Film Festival Int. Competition
*New Holland Island IFF Sankt Petersburg, Russia
*Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany
*GoetheFEST Belgrad, Niš, Novi Sad, Serbia
*Berlinale Special Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Croatia
*German Film Festival, Cinémathèque Luxemburg
*Semana de Cine Aleman, Mexico
*First City Film Festival Kansas, USA
*Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt, Germany
***Moscow IFF 2021 Special Jury Award
