A Spectre Is Haunting Europe

A Spectre Is Haunting Europe

46 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 4, 2013

Berlin, a summer in the age of neoliberalism: the spectre of the soviet avant-garde is haunting the city. A young Georgian contract-worker is surprised to find the ghost of the Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in his kitchen. At the same time, his friend Kasimir inherits a big fortune, but what shall he do with all this money? Framed by a travel through time leading to Flaubert's 19th Century und the shooting of a revisionist melodrama for German television, the film follows the adventures of these three characters in contemporary Berlin. A suprematist digital comedy about the transmission of emancipatory energies.

A Spectre Is Haunting Europe

46 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 4, 2013

A Spectre Is Haunting Europe
Berlin, a summer in the age of neoliberalism: the spectre of the soviet avant-garde is haunting the city. A young Georgian contract-worker is surprised to find the ghost of the Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in his kitchen. At the same time, his friend Kasimir inherits a big fortune, but what shall he do with all this money? Framed by a travel through time leading to Flaubert's 19th Century und the shooting of a revisionist melodrama for German television, the film follows the adventures of these three characters in contemporary Berlin. A suprematist digital comedy about the transmission of emancipatory energies.
IMDb rating 5.1
Producers German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Original title Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa
Directors Julian Radlmaier
Writers Julian Radlmaier

Cast

Zurab Rtveliasvili

as Mayakovsky

Katja Weilandt

as Schauspielerin

Julian Radlmaier

as Frédéric Moreau