Directed by:
Dominik GrafCinematography:
Hanno LentzCast:
Tom Schilling, Saskia Rosendahl, Albrecht Schuch, Meret Becker, Michael Wittenborn, Petra Kalkutschke, Elmar Gutmann, Aljoscha Stadelmann, Anne Bennent (more)VOD (1)
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Exhilarating coming-of-age drama set in Berlin in the tumultuous period between the 1929 market crash and the Nazi Party’s rise to power. Raffish twenty-something Jakob Fabian (Tom Schilling) works as an advertising copywriter for a cigarette company during the day and at night, drifts through cabaret bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy leftist friend Labude (rising star Albrecht Schuch). When he meets Cornelia (Saskia Rosendahl), a self-confident aspiring actress, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment and falls in love. But then, he too loses his job as part of the great wave of layoffs, whilst Cornelia’s career blossoms thanks to her boss and admirer, Makart (Aljoscha Stadelmann), a Babelsberg Studio mogul. It’s an arrangement that Fabian finds difficult to come to terms with, and it's not just his world that is falling apart... Capturing a world of moral decline and disillusionment, this ‘Bildungsroman’ is a wildly enthralling dive into Weimar Germany on the edge of self-destruction. (Palace Films)
(more)Cast
Tom Schilling
East Germany
Best movies:
Generation War (2013) (series)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Never Look Away (2018)
Saskia Rosendahl
Germany
Best movies:
Dying (2024)
Never Look Away (2018)
We Are Young. We Are Strong (2014)
Albrecht Schuch
East Germany
Best movies:
System Crasher (2019)
54 Hours (2018) (series)
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Meret Becker
West Germany
Best movies:
Comedian Harmonists (1997)
Life Is All You Get (1997)
Munich (2005)
Michael Wittenborn
West Germany
Best movies:
Curveball (2020)
The German Lesson (2019)
A Friend of Mine (2006)
Petra Kalkutschke
East Germany
Best movies:
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Die Treue-Testerin - Spezialauftrag Liebe (2008) (TV movie)
Elmar Gutmann
Best movies:
Alaska.de (2000)
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
The Signal (2024) (series)
Aljoscha Stadelmann
West Germany
Best movies:
The Billion Dollar Code (2021) (series)
Lessons of a Dream (2011)
Carlos (2010) (TV movie)
Anne Bennent
Switzerland
Best movies:
Die Wildente (1976)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Séraphine (2008)
Eva Medusa Gühne
Best movies:
Before Snowfall (2013)
Wie Feuer und Flamme (2001)
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Jörg-Uwe Schröder
Best movies:
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
The Beloved Sisters (2014)
Kris Kwiat
Best movies:
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Bodycheck – Mit Herz durch die Wand (2017) (TV movie)
Karimah El-Giamal
Best movies:
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)