His graduation film,
The Council of Birds
, was lost in another dimension.
Selected in 2014 at the Venice Film Festival for Critics' Week, it has never been distributed theatrically, neither in Germany, its country of origin, nor elsewhere.
With
Universal Theory
, his first official feature film, Timm Kröger opens up new dimensions for us this time and he is not about to be forgotten.
In this surprising black and white work, which is as much a Hollywood melodrama as a film noir, a metaphysical thriller as a homage to the seventh art as the references are numerous, from Alfred Hitchcock to Fritz Lang, he plunges us into a disturbing love story haunted by the mysteries of quantum physics.
"In what world are we living?"
This is the whole question in the preamble to this film, the one that has obsessed Johannes Leinert for years, the main character, an author mocked on TV sets for his theory on multi-worlds.
Black and white photography
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