12th German Film Festival

City:
Moscow

Cinemas:
35mm

Dates:
5–10 December 2013

Маленький странный кот
Das merkwürdige Kätzchen

Country: Germany
Year: 2013
Director: Ramon Zürcher
Cast: Leon Alan Beiersdorf, Matthias Dittmer, Lea Draeger
Genre: drama
Language: German
Time: 1 hour 12 minutes
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Siblings Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and their little sister Clara. That evening, other relatives will be joining them for dinner. Over the course of the day, the washing machine is repaired, people sit together at the kitchen table, carry out an experiment with orange peel, talk about lungs, and sew on a button that was deliberately torn off. This sequence of family scenes in a Berlin flat complete with cat and dog creates a wondrous world of the everyday: Coming and going, all manner of doings, each movement leading to the next, one word following another. It is a carefully staged chain reaction of actions and sentences. And in between, silent gazes and anecdotes about experiences. The people act oddly even-temperedly; their dialogues are direct and unemotional. Even the pets and the material surroundings play a part. Some objects seem alive as if by magic. Commonplace actions and familiar items appear absurd and eerie in this narrative cosmos. Putting the absurdities...