film profile], which was screened in Rotterdam and Berlin and which won the German Film Critics’ Award in the Best Debut category in 2017.
His second project, which is participating in the Encounters strand of this year's Berlinale, is supposedly set in the summer of 1928 and centres on a crazy factory worker called Lyovischka (played by
Alexandre Koberidze) who flees Soviet Russia in a desperate bid to become a Hollywood star. In the first part of the film, we learn that Lyovischka has been cast in the role of Trotsky by Sergei Eisenstein in his film October, but his dream of becoming an actor is shattered when the real Trotsky falls out of favour with Stalin and he is subsequently edited out of the film. Thus, the man finds himself in a German resort facing the Baltic Sea where he pretends to be a baron and meets millionairess Octavia Flambow-Jansen (
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