Artsploitation
Films Fortifies Its Line-Up with DER BUNKER
Alternative North American film distribution company
Artsploitation Films (www.artsploitation.com)
has secured American rights to DER BUNKER, the wildly original German
comedy which World Premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival.
The film marks the directorial debut of German-born Nikias Chryssos and
was a popular and critical hit at the festival with Exberliner.com calling it,
"Funny, horrifying, theatrical, abstract, allegorical and mysterious.” The
surrealistic and dark film is set entirely within a windowless bunker which
houses a stern father, his swollen-legged wife and their precocious but
learning-challenged son. A young graduate student (Pit Bukowski, Der
Samurai) rents a room from them and begins to tutor the boy.
And despite his obvious inability to remember the most basic knowledge, he is
the darling of his doting but corporal punishment-loving parents who are
grooming him to be president of the United States.
Artsploitation’s
president Ray Murray says, “Der Bunker was so peculiar yet amazingly
memorable, after acquiring a string of horror films, I felt we had to have this
odd comedy. Reminiscent of the works of John Waters, David Lynch and Luis
Buñuel, Chryssos creates a reality where conventional story-telling, and its
accompanying logic, is left outside the steps, it will be a pleasure to present
it to unsuspecting audiences!”
“We’re
thrilled to be working with Ray and his team, and alongside their slate of
exceptional titles” comments Xavier Henry-Rashid, Managing Director of Film
Republic.
The film will receive a limited theatrical this fall with a DVD/Blu-ray
and VOD slated for December, 2015. The deal was negotiated by Artsploitation’s
Ray Murray and Film Republic’s Managing Director Xavier Henry-Rashid and Sales
Executive Ameline Thomas on behalf of Kataskop Film and Geissendoerfer Film
& Fernsehproduktion.
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