PARADIES

PARADISE

In a world where death has become a private service company, three workers rebel against their own mortality.

For the three workers of the company “Styx“ it is everyday business: living in the company van and driving overland to get from one place and time of death to the next – terminating people, packaging them and sending them off. They live a monotone life doing their daily chores for a society that developed a pain-free system for people’s passings. Suddenly, the three find themselves confronted with their own termination and start to question and bend the rules of their world.


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Immanuel Esser
Immanuel Esser
photos © Esser/Künzli/Mihatsch/KHM
  • Genre
    Comedy, Drama, Road Movie
  • CATEGORY
    Feature
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2020
  • DIRECTOR
    Immanuel Esser
  • SCREENPLAY
    Immanuel Esser, Matthias Sahli, Angelo Wemmje
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Philipp Künzli
  • CAST
    Franziska Machens, Holger Daemgen, Johannes Kühn
  • PRODUCERS
    Immanuel Esser, Philipp Künzli, Renate Mihatsch
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
  • RUNTIME
    80 min
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • FESTIVALS
    Filmfestival Max Ophüls Prize Saarbrücken 2020
  • SALES
    Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
    dilger@khm.de
    www.khm.de
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