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 |