Kill Daddy Goodnight

Das Vaterspiel

Germany

2009

110 Min

Color

1.85:1

English, German

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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SCR Michael Glawogger, Josef Haslinger

CAST Helmut Köpping, Christian Tramitz, Sabine Timoteo, Ulrich Tukur, Itzhak Fintzi, Samuel Finzi, Michou Friesz, Franziska Weisz, Marisa Growaldt, Otto Tausig, Jeremy Strong

MUSIC Olga Neuwirth

Berlinale (Panorama), São Paulo, Melbourne (Vengeance Is Mine), Vancouver

Synopsis

Ratz wishes he could kill his father who is an Austrian Minister. At least virtually. He develops a computer game that allows him do so as often as he pleases. On the opposite path, we follow Jonas’ suspenseful journey who has devoted his entire life tracking the Nazi Official who killed his father and who, as the records state, is in hiding. One day, Mimi, Ratz’ first love, calls him up from New York to join her and renovate a cellar. She promises him in return to help him sell his video game. This will unexpectedly bring Ratz face to face with uncomfortable questions about history and his own filial relationships to his father.

Director

Michael Glawogger

Born in Graz, Austria, in 1959, Michael Glawogger is a traveling filmmaker. Not only does he literally journey around the world for his documentaries, he also moves back and forth between forms and genres, between photography and writing, between gentler and more forceful tones. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and the Vienna Film Academy and has since worked as a director, writer, and cinematographer in Vienna, Bangkok, and Znojmo. He plans to shoot in Poland and Bangladesh in the near future. —glawogger.com