Aufzug

Aufzug (2012)

The story is set some time in the past, or maybe some time in the future. Given a time-frame, we would say somewhere between the American moonwalk, and Coca- Cola's serious ambition to turn the moon into an advertising logo. Our central character, the young lift operator, is formed by experience into cynicism, detachment, and apathy. The story builds to its crescendo: of public outrage and state crackdown; the banality of commercial interest and the monumental rape of nature. Set in a large newspaper office, the Lift is a place of relative safety. But floor by floor, with each passenger in his or her tableau, the atmosphere of mayhem seeps in. Finally our young character leaves the situation, far-gone in hopelessness and disinterest.

Director: Emily Kuhnke

Casts

	Daniel-Frantisek Kamen as Sven
	Tomas Spencer as Albert
	Robert Baum as Assistant Müller
	Philip Brehse as Otto
	Manuel Däbritz as Hoffmeister
	Daniel Faust as Police Officer
	Maximilian Gehrlinger as Liftboy 2
	Christian Harting as Commissar
	Benjamin Heinrich as Assistant Koffer
	Matthew Koudys as Respectable Male
	Sylvie Krause-Grégoire as Patrycia
	Stephanie Krogmann as Respectable female
	Holger Liedtke as Herr Bornemann
	Robin Meisner as Liftboy
	Klaus A. Müller as Old Man
	Bernd S. Rositzka as Gustav
	Rebekka Suninen as Erika
	Ralf Ufer as Worker
	Paul Weismann as Redakteur
	Felix Zühkle as Johannes

Crew