Fabian - Going to the Dogs

A personal look

"Graf’s Weimar Republic drama boldly straddles the realms of costume realism and experiment

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SCREAN DAILY
  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Dominik Graf
  • Germany 2021
  • 179 minutes
  • German
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works as an advertising copywriter for a cigarette company during the day. At night, he drifts through cabaret bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy leftist friend Labude. When he meets Cornelia, a self-confident aspiring actress, he allows himself to fall in love, but then he loses his job whilst Cornelia’s career blossoms thanks to a Studio mogul. Fabian finds this difficult to accept. But it is not just his world that is falling apart...

Dominik Graf adapts to the screen the book by Erich Kästner, a work that defines the tragic, hedonistic and dysfunctional era of the Weimar Republic.

Filmography: The Blue Room (2016), Beloved Sisters (2014), A Map of the Heart (2002).

 

An online conversation with the actor.


  • Director Dominik Graf
  • Production Felix von Boehm
  • Script Constantin Lieb, Dominik Graf, adapted from the novel by Erich Kästner
  • Cinematography Hanno Lentz
  • Editing Claudia Wolscht
  • Music Sven Rossenbach, Florian van Volxem
  • Festivals Rotterdam, Berlin, Nuremberg (Best Film Award)
  • Actors Tom Schilling, Saskia Rosendahl, Albrecht Schuch, Meret Becker
  • Source Lev Cinemas Ltd.