What if Marxism had a dry wit and a taste for petit fours? This 64-minute class war goes down smooth.
Three young Georgians have to clean a castle in Berlin, where a German arms manufacturer's art collection is being set up for an exhibition. Of course, the proletariat isn't welcome at the opening party and they are banished to a servants' room in the attic. Downstairs, however, a splendid buffet attracts them - so why not just ignore the unfair prohibition and cross the line of class society? Didn't the French Revolution start over a piece of cake?
Direction
Radlmaier's static frames turn class hierarchy into geometry
Writing
Dialogue drier than the champagne they're not allowed to drink
Production
One castle, two floors, infinite ideological tension
Director
Julian Radlmaier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual Schloss Babelsberg with a crew of twelve and a budget that wouldn't cover one mansion party in Succession.
Radlmaier made this between his film studies at Berlinale Talents—it's essentially a thesis film that landed in festivals, proving you can graduate from theory into praxis with enough dry humor.
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