Inflatable Bear, Hourly (Drama)

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Director: Elisabeth Werchosin
Producer: Roman Blatman,Kirill Krasovski,Elisabeth Werchosin
Screenwriter: Elisabeth Werchosin
Cinematographer: Roman Blatman
Composer: Aleksey Komasa
Editor: Elisabeth Werchosin
Production Designer: Evgeny Agulnikov
Costume Designer: Aleksandra Chumachenko
Key Cast: Varvara Shmykova,Corinna Kirchhoff

Lena, a Russian expat in Berlin, is struggling to find acting work. Luckily, she still has her gig inside a giant bear costume.

Like her lead character, first-time director Elisabeth Werchosin is a Russian artist who relocated to Berlin – and her strange, comic rendering of the disorientation and loneliness of exile is filled with real pathos and anxiety. It’s a deadpan surrealistic odyssey set among the city’s Soviet-era outskirts, with a chaotic birthday picnic that blends humour and tragedy in a moment you won’t forget.