A boy in a ladybug costume learns the hard way that disco cruelty doesn't discriminate.
Monique appears dressed up as Marilyn Monroe in the village disco NEW YORK. Her brother Rick thinks it's funny appearing as ladybug. But he ist the only one. It's going to be a fateful night...
Acting
Matti Schmidt-Schaller's trembling bravado as Rick breaks you.
Direction
Walter turns 30 minutes into an entire adolescence.
Costume
The ladybug suit as vulnerability armor—devastating choice.
Director
Jonas Ludwig Walter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'NEW YORK' disco name isn't irony—it's aspirational tragedy, small German towns dreaming of elsewhere while crushing their own.
Part of a wave of post-2015 German shorts exploring toxic masculinity in provincial spaces; Walter studied under Angela Schanelec.
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