“Luxury, luxury, luxury… and not to be so alone.” Vanessa wants to spend her holiday at a comfortable resort. However, due to a booking error at the travel agents, Vanessa ends up on a barren desert island. The next ship doesn’t arrive for another week, so until then she has to cope with oddball lighthouse keeper Stanislav, and the highly unconventional and nonchalant Sebastian, who also has a right to the only shabby guest room. There’s no escape from this island – and the three gradually get to know each other over schnapps and pie. When a further guest arrives in the form of dubious businessman Felix and a body turns up in Stanislav’s cellar, the insular resort becomes the backdrop for a grotesque fight for life. In his debut feature, Matthias J. Michel cleverly repels various genre and character clichés to create an exceptional black comedy.
wacked..! tells the story of Michael and his friends Mani and Dani. All three of them are patients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out! The lively interplay between the characters sets the scene and provides insight into the manic-depressive protagonist's inner world. A serious topic, portrayed in an entertaining and direct manner.
전 유고슬라비아 출신의 세 여성을 통해 생존에 대한 개념과 세대 간의 차이로 빚어지는 미묘한 오해를 보여주고 있는 영화. 50살의 꼬장꼬장한 루자는 세르비아 출신으로, 취리히에서 식당을 운영하고 있다. 그녀의 유일한 관심사는 돈벌이뿐이다. 루자의 식당에서 일하는 60살의 밀라는, 고향인 크로아티아에 집을 지을 수 있을 만큼 돈을 버는 것이 꿈이다. 22살의 아름답고 충동적인 아나는 사라예보 출신으로, 저녁시간에 식당에 와서 일한다. 뒤엉킨 적대감으로 인해 세 사람 사이의 우정은 힘들지만 천천히 싹터간다. 로카르노영화제 금표범상을 수상한 작품으로, 국적이란 무엇인지, 무엇이 국적을 만들어내는지, 이민의 메커니즘은 어떤 것인지, 이런 복합적인 문제들을 단순한 감상주의에 기대지 않으면서 효과적으로 그려내 보인 작품이다.
Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene to pay the reluctant Spat to reinvestigate the case, on the assumption that Kohler is innocent. The newspapers pick up on this and begin to question whether Kohler was wrongly convicted.
A black comedy telling of Georgette's frustrated love affair with brother Emile and her career as a 'black widow' - seducing and poisoning the male citizens of a small German town circa 1900.
