DAS SCHWARZE QUADRAT

KINOFILM | 2021 | 100 Min.

PRODUKTION: Frisbeefilms GmbH & Co. KG, ZDF, Arte
VERLEIH: Picture Tree
REGIE: Peter Meister
PRODUZENT: Manuel Bickenbach, Alexander Bickenbach
DREHBUCH: Peter Meister
KAMERA: Felix Novo de Oliveira

DARSTELLER: Bernhard Schütz, Jacob Matschenz, Sandra Hüller,
Pheline Roggen, Victoria Trautmannsdorf

FESTIVALS/AUSZEICHNUNGEN

Gewinner 'Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino' in HOF.

SYNOPSIS

VINCENT, a struggling art-thief and failed artist, stole Malewitsch’s legendary ab- stract painting “The Black Square”. The sale and handover to a Russian oligarch and his designated art expert MARTHA is set to take place on a cruise ship. When Vincent and his younger partner NILS realise that their principal accomplice will not show-up to provide the boarding tickets and fake IDs, they desperately overbear two men in order to sneak their way onto the ship. To their horror they quickly learn that their victims

are part of the cruise ship’s entertainment act. Desperate not to blow their cover, Vin- cent and Nils take on their roles as David Bowie and Elvis Presley doubles with vary- ing degrees of success. Despite his best ef- forts, Vincent’s talents hardly convince the passengers and it does not take long until various crew members discover their true identities and the value of their loot. A wild goose chase for “The Black Square” breaks loose in the belly of the cruise ship...