Cherry Season in Sangerhausen. Lotte is a maid at the castle where the poet Novalis is staying for some days. Without knowing, he encourages her to flee to France with Norbert, the stone-eater. But the escape fails and ends with Lotte having to hide in a cave. Ursula is exhausted and stuck in a passionless marriage. Early in the morning, she cleans a furniture store, and during the day, she works as a waitress. An unexpected encounter with musicians passing through sparks hope in her, but leads her into new troubles. The Iranian YouTuber Neda is stranded in Sangerhausen, where she runs into an acquaintance from back home and the tour guide Sung-Nam, with whom she sets off for the Kyffhäuser. On the way there, Ursula runs into their car and together they embark on a mysterious journey. In a cave, the ghost of Lotte appears to them. Neda leaves Sangerhausen and takes hold of the blue stone that Nobert once swallowed.
Co-Hosting with Human Rights Film Festival Zurich.
DIRECTOR
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Julian Radlmaier
According to Marx and Engels, class struggle is the driving force of history. Perhaps. It certainly runs through the central theme of Julian Radlmaier’s films. These Marxist comedies do not shy away from the supernatural. Even if they fail to overcome class divisions, the protagonists do not give up their belief in a better world. Julian Radlmaier (1984) studied film directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, as well as film theory and art history in Berlin and Paris. PHANTOMS OF JULY is Radlmaier’s fifth film.
