Blutsauger
Bloodsuckers

Daniel Hoesl, Martin Hansen, Corinna Harfouch, Alexandre Koberidze, Alexander Herbst, Lilith Stangenberg
Blutsauger | Bloodsuckers by Julian Radlmaier
DEU 2021, Encounters
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Lilith Stangenberg, Kyung Taek Lie, Alexandre Koberidze
Blutsauger | Bloodsuckers by Julian Radlmaier
DEU 2021, Encounters
© faktura film

Lilith Stangenberg, Alexander Herbst
Blutsauger | Bloodsuckers by Julian Radlmaier
DEU 2021, Encounters
© faktura film

Lilith Stangenberg, Alexander Herbst, Alexandre Koberidze
Blutsauger | Bloodsuckers by Julian Radlmaier
DEU 2021, Encounters
© faktura film

Alexandre Koberidze, Lilith Stangenberg
Blutsauger | Bloodsuckers by Julian Radlmaier
DEU 2021, Encounters
© faktura film

Film poster
Blutsauger | Bloodsuckers by Julian Radlmaier
DEU 2021, Encounters
Julian Radlmaier takes his trademark “ironical materialism” even further, with a new mixture of ideology and cinephilia that gives rise to a dialectic fable-cum-formalist-comedy, assuming that the Marxist description of the capitalist as a vampire is far from metaphorical. And while the entire film features historical inaccuracies that highlight the subject’s current relevance, it is the finale, with its abrupt detour into manipulation of reality and xenophobia, which really emphasises how injustice and lies prevailed then as now – only now more than ever. The oppressed continue to aim their class violence in the wrong direction, once again offering their necks to the oppressors’ fangs.
With
- Alexandre Koberidze (Ljowuschka)
- Lilith Stangenberg (Octavia)
- Alexander Herbst (Jacob)
- Corinna Harfouch (Aunt Erkentrud)
- Andreas Döhler (Dr. Humburg)
- Daniel Hoesl (Bonim)
- Mareike Beykirch (Jewka)
- Kyung-Taek Lie (Algae Collector)
- Darja Lewin (Rosa)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Julian Radlmaier |
Cinematography | Markus Koob |
Editing | Julian Radlmaier |
Sound Design | Christian Obermaier |
Sound | Andreas Hildebrandt |
Production Design | Reinhild Blaschke |
Costumes | Sara Wendt |
Make-Up | Christian Fritzenwanker |
Assistant Director | Ewelina Rosinska |
Production Manager | Clara Gerst |
Producer | Kirill Krasovski |
Co-Producers | Michael Reuter, Knut Maier, Niels Maier, Stefan Laucher, Julia Mishkinene |
Co-Production |
The Post Republic Berlin Maier Bros. Köln Ludwig Kameraverleih München |
World Sales
The Playmaker
Produced by
faktura film

Lilith Stangenberg
The protagonist on the premiere night.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Julian Radlmaier
The director on the premiere night.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Alexander Herbst, Kirill Krasovski, Lilith Stangenberg, Alexandre Koberidze, Julian Radlmaier
The film team at the Kulturforum.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Lilith Stangenberg
The actor before the premiere.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Lilith Stangenberg
The actor with Berlin scenery.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Camera-shy
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Alexander Herbst
The actor before the premiere.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Alexandre Koberidze
The actor is also participating in the Competition as director with the film Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt? (What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?).
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Alexander Herbst
Interview with the protagonist.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Julian Radlmaier, Carlo Chatrian
The director and the Artistic Director greet each other in a Corona-compliant manner.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Julian Radlmaier
The director well protected.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Lilith Stangenberg
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Barbara Wurm
The member of the Selection Committee at the film talk.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021

Julian Radlmaier
The director before the premiere.
Blutsauger · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 17, 2021
Julian Radlmaier

Born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1984, he studied film and history of art in Berlin and Paris before taking a degree in directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). He has worked as an assistant for Werner Schroeter and translated and published a series of film criticism texts by French philosopher Jacques Rancière. His DFFB graduation film, Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes, was selected for the 2017 Perspektive Deutsches Kino and went on to screen and win several awards at festivals around the world. His screenplay for Blutsauger has already won the German Screenplay Award and a Berlinale Kompagnon Fellowship.
Filmography
2013 Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa (A Spectre is Haunting Europe) 2014 Ein proletarisches Wintermärchen (A Proletarian Winter’s Tale) 2017 Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (Self-criticsim of a Bourgeois Dog) 2021 Blutsauger (Bloodsuckers)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2021