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ASTA UPSET

by Max Linz

synopsis

The film 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.

international title: Asta Upset
original title: Ich will mich nicht künstlich aufregen
country: Germany
year: 2014
genre: fiction
directed by: Max Linz
film run: 80'
screenplay: Max Linz
cast: Sarah Ralfs, Hannelore Hoger, Barbara Heynen, René Schappach, Daniel Hoevels, Franz Beil
cinematography by: Carlos Andrés López
film editing: Max Linz, René Frölke
art director: Jil Bertermann, Merle Vorwald
costumes designer: Pola Kardum
music: Tamer Fahri Özgönenc
producer: Maximilian Haslberger
co-producer: Jan Schütte
production: Amerikafilm, Deutsche Film & Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) / German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB), Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg - RBB
backing: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

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