SALAMANDER

SALAMANDER

SALAMANDER

Director: Barbara Gebler
Short film | D | 2000
54 min | Dolby SR

34th Hof International Film Festival
2000

In the middle of the night, Sandra is woken from her tablet-induced sleep by strange noises. Trained in martial arts, she manages to overpower the burglar, Mike, who by telling her a rather obscure story, gets her to accompany him. Unnoticeably, the dilapidated Peugeot 405 in which Mike and Sandra drive through the sleeping town turns into a module that catapults them out of the usual continuum of time and space.

Caught between extreme awareness and utter exhaustion, Sandra leaves the familiar universe and arrives in a kind of Manga reality. It transpires that Mike is working in the name of his mysterious “Brother”, the “big gangster boss”, the “invisible Third”

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