A post-modern faux-thriller about obsession, guilt and wanting to ‘off’ your dad.
Irascible and lazy, Rupert ‘Ratz’ Kramer is a 35-year-old slacker who plays out his patricidal fantasies through the development of a violent computer game. A chance call from an old flame sends him to New York, where he hopes to sell his creation to a games company, but instead becomes embroiled in events that begin to pose increasingly uncomfortable moral questions.
Part thriller, part psychological family drama, part exploration of German–Austrian war guilt, this film from Michael Glawogger (Slumming and Workingman’s Death, MIFF 06) defies categorisation.
Adapted from the novel Das Vaterspiel by Josef Haslinger.
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