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Fabian: Going to the Dogs

1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
Berlin, 1931. A milieu between sublets and the underworld, where brothels are artists’ studios, Nazis are yelling abuse in the streets and Babelsberg is dreaming of producing “psychological cinema”. Life is surging, society is fermenting and corroding. As long as he still has a job, Jakob Fabian, who has a doctorate in German studies, writes advertising copy during the day and frequents the city’s more outlandish establishments with Stephan Labude at night. While his friend – who later confesses to having failed “in the subjects of life and profession” – is a go-getter when it comes to communism and sex, Fabian remains sober and distant. Without really believing in it, he is waiting for the “victory of decency”. His love for Cornelia is the only thing that makes him question his ironic fatalism. She becomes a ray of hope in his crumbling existence. Despite all the parallels with today’s maligned world, bringing Erich Kästner’s deeply sad, autobiographical “Fabian” – one of the most important novels of the Weimar Republic – out of the shadows is a challenge. Dominik Graf masters it brilliantly. His style is finely pointed, cold-bloodedly brisk and yet quietly melancholic. A film like a slowly turning disco ball, about the connections between sexual intercourse and an empty fridge – and the disintegration of the dream of happiness.
Original title
Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde
English title
Fabian: Going to the Dogs
Year
2021
Country
Language
DE
Subtitles
CZ
Running time
175 min
Age rating
15+
Release date CZ
27. 10. 2022
Release date SK
27. 10. 2022

Festivals
International
Berlinale

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Awards

IFF Berlinale
Main Competition
2021
German Film Awards
Best Cinematography, Best Editing
2021
Bavarian Film Awards
Best Directing, Best Cinematography
2022

Media reception

Los Angeles Times
"Romance in the shadow of authoritarianism"
IndieWire
B "Unpredictable visual experience"

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