2022
Unrated
Kino Lorber
2 h 56 m

2022
Unrated
Kino Lorber
2 h 56 m

Summary Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory by day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy and debauched friend Labude by night. When Fabian meets the beautiful and confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment and falls in love. ...

Directed By: Dominik Graf

Written By: Erich Kästner, Constantin Lieb, Dominik Graf

2022
Unrated
Kino Lorber
2 h 56 m

2022
Unrated
Kino Lorber
2 h 56 m

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Name: Fabian: Going to the Dogs
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2022-02-11
Duration: 2 min 56 s
Rating: 68
Cast: Tom Schilling, Albrecht Schuch, Saskia Rosendahl, Michael Wittenborn, Petra Kalkutschke

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Dominik Graf

Written By: Erich Kästner, Constantin Lieb, Dominik Graf

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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

67% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews

67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Slant Magazine

Mar 5, 2021

Its characters are suffused with a paradoxical kind of fear that can only happen in a dream, the dread before an immense catastrophe that’s unavoidable because it’s already happened.

By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW

Film Threat

Feb 14, 2022

Fabian: Going to the Dogs is poetic, ugly, romantic, tragic, and side-splitting. Some sequences approach the edge of sanity, take a glimpse into the abyss, then the plot reassembles itself – but the threat of derailing remains, and it’s quite exhilarating.

By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW

IndieWire

Mar 16, 2021

Graf makes “Going to the Dogs” an unpredictable visual experience, bracingly experimental for a 68-year-old filmmaker who hasn’t run out of gas.

By Ryan Lattanzio FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Mar 3, 2022

It takes some getting used to, and there are sequences more awkward in their motley-ness than pointed. But overall, it’s an effectively crashing intimacy created by the performances (especially the fizz and warmth Schilling and Rosendahl have together), Claudia Wolscht’s restless editing and Hanno Lentz’s camerawork.

By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

The Film Stage

Mar 16, 2021

Fabian – Going to the Dogs is well-meaning, but Schilling’s portrayal of Fabian is a poor symbol for this malaise.

By David Katz FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Mar 5, 2021

Graf has spent most of his long career as a director of TV series and movies, and much of the staging lacks great originality. But this is made up for, in part, by the striking way the story of Jakob and his friends is told mixing the narrative drama with now old-fashioned “modernist” tech devices borrowed from the past.

By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW

Movie Nation

Feb 8, 2022

A tram here, a car there, a little attention to wardrobe, and contrasting haircuts (a Hitler/Himmler buzz was the dead give-away somebody was a Nazi) and we get an idea of what this world looked like. But “Fabian” fails to immerse us in that world, and being as leisurely as a limited series in its pacing, loses the urgency of what to later audiences can only be a “cautionary” tale.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lupa Film, DCM Pictures, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE, Amilux Film, Studio Babelsberg, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern

Release Date Feb 11, 2022

Duration 2 h 56 m

Rating Unrated

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Website https://amiluxfilm.com/project/fabian-or-going-to-the-dogs/

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Awards

German Film Awards

• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations

German Film Critics Association Awards

• 6 Nominations

Guenter Rohrbach Filmpreis

• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations

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Tom Schilling

Jakob Fabian

Albrecht Schuch

Stephan Labude, Fabian's friend

Saskia Rosendahl

Cornelia Battenberg

Michael Wittenborn

Justizrat Labude

Petra Kalkutschke

Frau Fabian

Elmar Gutmann

Herr Fabian

Aljoscha Stadelmann

Produzent Makart

Anne Bennent

Baroness Ruth Reiter

Meret Becker

Irene Moll

Eva Medusa Gühne

Frau Hohlfeld

Julia Preuß

Kyra

Lukas Rüppel

Weckherlin

Michael Hanemann

Professor

Oliver Reinhard

Direktor Breitkopf

Jörg-Uwe Schröder

Dr. Moll

Brian Völkner

Kollege Fischer

Thomas Dehler

Kriminalkommissar Donath

Luise Aschenbrenner

Die Kulp

Lena Baader

Die Selow

Julia Blankenburg

Buchhalterin

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