Asta Upset ( Ich will mich nicht künstlich aufregen )

Asta Upset (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ich will mich nicht künstlich aufregen
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Max Linz

Written By:
Max Linz

Actors:
Sarah Ralfs ..... Asta Andersen
Pushpendra Singh ..... Waris Singh
Hannelore Hoger ..... Dagmar Andersen
Barbara Heynen ..... Leontine Stein
René Schappach ..... René Rausch
Kerstin Graßmann ..... Kerstin
Franz Friedrich ..... Writer-in-Residence
Luis Krawen ..... Art Vandelay
Nele Winkler ..... Hannah Husching
Daniel Hoevels ..... Marc Möbius
Franz Beil ..... Viktor von Wolzogen
Hamza Chehade ..... Öffentlichkeitsarbeiter
Mehmet Said-Kavlak ..... Künstler
Samet Balkir ..... Urbaner Gärtner
Serpil Turhan ..... Noa

Synopsis:

The film is set in a modern day 'Berlin Republic' liberated from all irrelevancies. It's about artistic production, the creative industries and above all film and cinema - a political manifesto in feature film format. It centres on Asta, tough, hardened by theory and immaculately styled right down to the emblems on her leather jacket, with current art scene jargon flowing elegantly from her lips. She's no hippie broad, but rather a modern-day warrior, verbally sparring with legendary actress Hannelore Hoger, her 'film mother', about her hobby of urban gardening. After the relentless competition between curators over the funding for her exhibition 'The Cinema! The Art', for which Hannelore Hoger even whispers inaudible recommendations into the ear of the German President, Asta ultimately plumps for international backing from an Indian friend. He luckily happens to be with her out in the country when she bumps into her arch-enemy Ms Top Cultural Department Brass, a meeting with far-reaching consequences. The film is an entertaining dissection of the current state of the cultural industry, for which 'left-wing' and 'right-wing' are relevant, yet oddly obsolete categories.

The paradigm of Berlin-based curator Asta Andersen's upcoming exhibition turns out to be her personal self-fulfilling prophecy: art + cinema = politics = trouble.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 20 July, 2015.