Vampire movie? Horror scenario? A horror story? Better! Julian Radlmaier doesn't see completely red, but rather takes a playful look at Marx's metaphor of the capitalist as a bloodsucker in his film - and hits the bull's eye. Imaginative, clearly contrived and politically alert, he tells the story of an actor from the Soviet Union who pretends to be a baron and tries to move to America in the summer of 1928. However, during a stopover on the Baltic Sea, he meets Octavia, a wealthy young capitalist who likes to think in modern terms, who quickly takes the refugee under her wing and soon becomes attached to his jugular vein.
DFFB graduate Radlmaier has already successfully practiced humorous criticism of the system in Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes. With Blutsauger, the young director has once again succeeded in creating a wonderfully crazy, clever work that shifts unconventionally between times, forms and chairs, in which comrades in the dunes lecture from "Das Kapital", house servants secretly become writers and the upper classes continue to quench their thirst for more unabashedly on their subjects. Political cinema is far too rarely this much fun (especially in German film).
