SURVIVING BRANDENBURG
Directors: Ben von Grafenstein, Zoltan Paul
Feature film | Germany | 2023
83 min | Dolby 5.1
57th Hof International Film Festival
2023
Auteur filmmaker Lazlo Kovac is denied funding for his film project. Too old, heart problems and no longer employable. Didn’t the Hungarian from Lake Balaton want to reach the top? What now? Continue to be dependent on his successful wife? Lazlo slides into a virtual life crisis and finds comfort in a “fantastic woman” from the neighboring village.
When a right-wing politician runs for the mayoral elections as the only candidate, Lazlo seems to come to his senses: In order to prevent the “right-wing bozo” from ruling over his village of 120 souls, he hastily allows himself to be nominated as a liberal counter-candidate. SURVIVING BRANDENBURG is a comedy about ageism and post-midlife crisis with a red-hot connection to the current political situation.
With Adele Neuhauser, André Fischer, Dietrich Hollinderbäumer, Joachim Assböck, Laszlo I Kish, Ralph Herforth, Sabine Weibel, Werner Eng, Zoltan Paul
Screenplay Zoltan Paul, Cinematography Jan Kerhart, Editing Ben Von Grafenstein, Production design Claus Rudolf Amler, Costume design Ingrid Buhrmann, Sound André Goeters, Sound Design Michael Schmidt, Music Julian Adam Pajzs, Make-up Sherin Kohler, Production Clementina Hegewisch, Jan Kerhart