A Santa Claus who arrives late and brings chaos instead of cheer? Christmas dinner just got weird.
A businessman books a Santa Claus with his wife from the student employment service for his children on Christmas Eve. He appears too late and when he realizes that he should only be the mess clown for the children so that they can go to bed quickly, because business friends are supposed to come to dinner, he calls his colleagues.
Acting
Rufus Beck's deadpan Santa chaos energy
Direction
Annette Ernst crams social satire into 14 minutes
Director
Annette Ernst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Student employment services in 1990s Germany actually supplied seasonal Santas, making this satire weirdly grounded in reality.
Director Annette Ernst was part of a wave of German female filmmakers exploring domestic absurdity in the 1990s; this short played at Oberhausen, one of the world's oldest short film festivals.
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