Finsterworld (2013)
- Directed by
- Frauke Finsterwalder
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 62 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This German film follows several interconnected characters over the course of a single day. It shows their awkward and uncomfortable interactions in modern Germany.
cringe comedydarkly comicunsettlingsatiricalmultiple storylinesobservationalbleakquirky
What happens
Finsterworld is a 2013 German cringe comedy drama directed by Frauke Finsterwalder, her debut feature film. Co-written by Finsterwalder and Christian Kracht, it follows interconnected, parallel stories over the course of one day in Germany. The title Finsterworld is a play on Finsterwalder's surname, which can be translated to English as "from the dark forest (cf forest ~ wood)". It is not to be confused with the Dutch village of Finsterwolde, indeed meaning "dark forest", "dark wood". Finsterwalders ancestry might well be traced back to this village, given its proximity to the German border, the fact that Dutch 'Finsterwolder' also means "from Finsterwolde" and German "wald" has the same root as Dutch "wold(e), woud(e)", common parts of toponyms both in the Netherlands and in Germany. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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