Lower Upper Cut

Everyone wants to "get to the top" as early and as fast as possible, and everyone is out for themselves. At the same time, the program itself is being evaluated and is struggling to stay in the curriculum. In order to save the program and themselves, the graduating class rehearses a revolt and is soon surrounded by rumors and intrigue, panic attacks and vanity. "Wackerbarth looks fearlessly into the eye of a central contradiction of the culture industry: people pretend that everything revolves around such noble things as art. In reality, vanity and a thirst for recognition reign." (taz)

Keywords

  • Berliner Schule
  • Filmgalerie 451
  • Made in Germany
  • education
  • satire
  • theater

Actors

  • Daniela Holtz
  • Luise Berndt
  • Lucie Heinze
  • Christoph Letkowski
  • Kathleen Morgeneyer

Director

  • Nicolas Wackerbarth

Drama, Comedy


1h 32min


6 FSK

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Germany
2011
In this self-reflective improv film, an acting class prepares for a crucial final audition that will decide the rest of their careers.

In this self-reflective improv film, an acting class prepares for a crucial final audition that will decide the rest of their careers.


Everyone wants to "get to the top" as early and as fast as possible, and everyone is out for themselves.


At the same time, the program itself is being evaluated and is struggling to stay in the curriculum. In order to save the program and themselves, the graduating class rehearses a revolt and is soon surrounded by rumors and intrigue, panic attacks and vanity.


"Wackerbarth looks fearlessly into the eye of a central contradiction of the culture industry: people pretend that everything revolves around such noble things as art. In reality, vanity and a thirst for recognition reign." (taz)

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