Fabian: Going to the Dogs

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Fabian: Going to the Dogs

2022

2h 56m

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Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory during the day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy friend Labude at night. When Fabian gets to know the self-confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment. He falls in love. But then he too falls victim to the great wave of layoffs, while Cornelia makes a career as an actress thanks to her boss and admirer. An arrangement that Fabian finds difficult to come to terms with. But it's not just his world that is falling apart...

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

03/03/2022

There couldn’t be a more auspicious time for a movie about well-intentioned, troubled souls on the precipice of authoritarianism.

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Pat Brown

Slant Magazine

02/11/2022

3.5/4

Its characters are suffused with a paradoxical kind of fear that can only happen in a dream -- the dread before an immense catastrophe that’s unavoidable because it’s already happened.

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Ryan Lattanzio

IndieWire

02/11/2022

B

Graf makes Going to the Dogs an unpredictable visual experience, bracingly experimental for a 68-year-old filmmaker who hasn’t run out of gas.

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Ryan Swen

Film Comment

Jul 14

In typical Graf fashion, the film resonates as both a fully fleshed-out melodrama and a grand portrait of the times.

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Filipe Freitas

Always Good Movies

09/18/2022

4/5

The stirring beauty of Graf’s drama comes from the genuine feelings transmitted by the leads, who, together with the editor Claudia Wolscht, contribute to the furiously cinematic outcome.

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Gisela Savdie

El Heraldo

08/15/2022

B

Graf walks us through a mixture of genres that range from the most surreal to the most realistic, with an interesting development of the characters [Full review in Spanish]

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Naomi M

@RT23407905 12/14/2022

One of my favourite german movies to date ! Went to see it in Berlin and i loved the arthouse, experimental, kaleidoscopic style and the characters.

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Dominik Graf

Director

Tom Schilling

Jakob Fabian

Albrecht Schuch

Stephan Labude

Saskia Rosendahl

Cornelia Battenberg

Meret Becker

Irene Moll

Michael Wittenborn

Justizrat Labude

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Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory during the day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy friend Labude at night. When Fabian gets to know the self-confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment. He falls in love. But then he too falls victim to the great wave of layoffs, while Cornelia makes a career as an actress thanks to her boss and admirer. An arrangement that Fabian finds difficult to come to terms with. But it's not just his world that is falling apart...

Director: Dominik Graf
Producer: Felix von Boehm
Screenwriter: Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieb
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Lupa Film, Arte, DCM Productions, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Doco Digital
Genre: Drama, History
Original Language: German
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 11, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 12, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA): $25.0K
Runtime: 2h 56m

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