He watches you from inside your couch. Your privacy is his love letter.
Kasimir uses a hollow couch to infiltrate houses. Once inside, he secretly films the owners’ lives. A few days later the couch is picked up again, with Kasimir inside: “Delivery Error“. He delivers the tapes to the brain surgeon Dr. Liebermann, who is trying to learn how to feel human emotions. While Kasimir provides him with more footage of further break-ins to prove his love, the doctor, unimpressed, prepares an awake surgery in his cellar for a young musician. Broken by unrequited love, Kasimir begins to deviate from Liebermann‘s dogma: never intervene in what happens in front of the camera. An unforgivable breach of trust for Liebermann and so he decides to determine Kasimir’s fate.
Direction
Schuh's debut controls space like a coffin.
Sound
The couch becomes a character—breathing, groaning.
Acting
Kremkin's eyes: desperate, hollow, unforgettable.
Director
Pascal Schuh
Knut Berger
Dr. Liebermann
Daniil Kremkin
Kasimir
Andreas Nickl
Mr. Zink
Johannes Kühn
Pavel
Kristina van Eyck
Ms. Bardot
Ludwig Simon
Philipp Rheinbold
Malaya Stern Takeda
Clarissa Rheinbold
Niels Bormann
Mr. Schneider
Manuel Ossenkopf
Nurse
Jennifer Sabel
Anna Müseler
Benjamin Kramme
Jonas Müseler
Alma Löhr
Jacky Müseler
Smilla Löhr
Bella Müseler
Monika Lennartz
Maria Quaas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'couch camera' was a modified medical endoscope, giving that suffocating tunnel vision.
Schuh cited 70s surveillance thrillers but wanted the watcher trapped too—no clean voyeurism.
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