Roland Rebers Todesrevue
What is life? Is it the longings of lovers, the fear of ageing, the rebellious struggle for a dignified death or the hunt for the most clicks? Is it just a show, perhaps? This film paints a multilayered picture of our existence, reintroducing the taboo subject of death into the cycle of life. A ruined love affair, an old man begging for euthanasia, a live show in which the contestants are mercilessly sacrificed to the audience, a dancer who cannot escape the ageing process despite constant self-optimising, and the person in the mask who wants to be famous at all costs intersect in various storylines. And between all these, a hearse driver rolls his “clientele” along an endless corridor and comes to his own conclusions about life and death.
Cast
- Hilde
- Ricci Hohlt
- DJ LOL
- Martin Bayer
- DREI GRAZIEN
- Eva Körber
- DREI GRAZIEN
- Edeltraud Klein
- DREI GRAZIEN
- Ilse Weber
- Der Würger von Mannheim
- John „Massive“ Drake
- Lisa
- Elisa Oberzig
- Hallo
- Andreas Pegler
- The Kitties
- Sophie Röhrmoser
- The Kitties
- Viktoria Jenne
- The Kitties
- Conny Hohenschläger
- The Kitties
- Carina Fritsch
- Männerbalett
- Florian Kottmair
- Männerbalett
- Carsten Conrad
- Männerballett
- Daniel Kustermann
- Männerballett
- Thomas Willmann
- Peter
- Thomas Bastkowski
- Miss Apple
- Bettie Berlin
- Werner
- Patrick Grimm
- Richie
- Bernd Fuchs
- Steffen
- Steffen Neder
- Freundin
- Angelika Zoller
Roland Rebers Todesrevue
Roland Reber
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2019
- Language
- de. OF ohne UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 92min
2.39:1, Stereo PCM
Director & Crew
Roland Reber
Filmography
“Dignity – that’s the film’s key theme as I see it: respectful treatment of yourself and others. In living as well as in dying. And it starts with language, among other things. The way we handle words is the way we handle people. A film is always a personal opinion, and for me it’s a dialogue with the viewer. And that is something that’s missing more and more in this age of communication. Conversation is missing. People talk and talk, but they say nothing. We live in a social situation inflamed by the media, and it’s high time we found our way back to real conversation so we can handle each other better again. I believe the film is a huge plea for respectful interaction with one another.”
Roland Reber
“Involving 130 people, Roland Reber's Cabaret of Death was our biggest and most elaborate production to date. There was a script, which we stuck to sometimes, but only sometimes because spontaneous development during the actual filming is and always has been our great passion. wtp is a community of artists; we design, produce and distribute independently, so we don’t have to answer to anyone – we can do what we really want. And we will make sure we keep this freedom.”
Mira Gittner
- Writer
- Roland Reber
- Mira Gittner
- Antje Nikola Mönning
- Director of Photography
- Mira Gittner
- Editor
- Mira Gittner
- Music Composer
- Antje Nikola Mönning
- Producer
- Antje Nikola Mönning
- Patricia Koch-Pritchard
- Marina Anna Eich