THE STRAW THAT BROKE

THE STRAW THAT BROKE

THE STRAW THAT BROKE

Director: Valentin Hennig
Feature film | Germany | 2021
70 min | Stereo

55th Hof International Film Festival
2021

“The virtual is viral,” Clea Bardan, an editor at DeBase SF, a subsidiary of PetroDent, tells Claudia Weiss, her favorite underpaid, overworked creator of sci-fi Virts (pulp entertainments of the future), before assigning her an impossible task that will take Claudia from her one-room writing studio in Stuttgart to Nueva York to a Harkon orbital to Relix, a water-based information planet that may hold the secret of how to save the multiverse from the O-Cloud, a virus that is destroying all sentient life forms at their ontological core.

But how much of what Claudia encounters along her journey of self-discovery has been altered by the virtual? And can a smart-talking mouse transformed from her fictional Virt really save her and the multiverse from their demise? The film delves, via a multitude of cinematic and narrative devices, into these and other metaphysical matters, while remaining a tale of loss and love, hope and despair, about Claudia Weiss and us all.”

With CLAUDIA GALLATZ, GABRIELE ZIMMERMANN, KONRAD LUCAS, MANJA KUHL, MANUEL HARDER, ROBERT BESTA, SANTIAGO ZIESMER

Screenplay TOM WHALEN, Set design FLORIAN FISCHER, Sound Design OLIVER MAGAÑA, Music VINCENT WIKSTRÖM, LEO FRICK, Make-up MELANIE JATZKOWSKI, Production VALENTIN HENNIG