A Spectre Is Haunting Europe

Berlin a summer in the age of neoliberalism the spectre of the soviet avantgarde is haunting the city A young Georgian contractworker is surprised to find the ghost of the Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in his kitchen At the same time his friend Kasimir inherits a big fortune but what shall he do with all this money Framed by a travel through time leading to Flauberts 19th Century und the shooting of a revisionist melodrama for German television the film follows the adventures of these three characters in contemporary Berlin A suprematist digital comedy about the transmission of emancipatory energies