21/10/2019 - Set in the late 1920s, the upcoming movie will portray the encounter between a penniless Soviet refugee and a young female vampire on the Baltic coast

Daniel Hoesl, Lilith Stangenberg and Alex Herbst in Bloodsuckers (© Faktura Film)

Young German director Julian Radlmaier, whom everyone should be keeping a close eye on, finished shooting his new film, Bloodsuckers [+see also:
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Bloodsuckers will star Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze (Let the Summer Never Come Again [+see also:
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Penned by Radlmaier himself, the script for Bloodsucker received the Golden Lola for Best Unfilmed Screenplay (a prize endowed with €10,000) during the 2019 Berlinale and was praised by the jury for being “extravagant, bizarre and hilarious”.

Bloodsuckers is being produced by Germany’s Faktura Film (Kirill Krasovski) in co-production with WDR/ARTE, with the support of The Post Republic, Maier Bros and Ludwig Kameraverleih. The film has so far been backed by the BKM, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and nordmedia. Grandfilm will distribute the movie in Germany, while ARRI Media will handle the world sales.

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