A 207-minute Romanian-German fever dream where a grown man with a baby's face drowns in department store soup.
Left behind by his mother, an alcoholic prostitute, Georg grew up carelessly with his aunt and grandmother. As an adult he works in a department store canteen and has become an outsider due to his shape and infantile appearance.
Acting
Erich Bar's physical performance is genuinely disturbing.
Cinematography
Claustrophobic framing traps you in Georg's warped perspective.
Production
Grotesque canteen set design that reeks of boiled cabbage and despair.
Director
Radu Gabrea
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Radu Gabrea shot this during his exile from Communist Romania, smuggling raw footage out in pieces.
The department store canteen was a real socialist-era institution, designed as 'workers' palaces' that Gabrea transforms into purgatory.
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