Bloodsuckers - A Marxist Vampire Comedy

Original title: Blutsauger

2021
2h 5m

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

547

YOUR RATING

Bloodsuckers - A Marxist Vampire Comedy (2021)

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Comedy Fantasy Horror

A penniless Soviet refugee falls in love with an eccentric young vampiress spending the summer at the seaside with her awkward servant. A Marxist vampire comedy.A penniless Soviet refugee falls in love with an eccentric young vampiress spending the summer at the seaside with her awkward servant. A Marxist vampire comedy.A penniless Soviet refugee falls in love with an eccentric young vampiress spending the summer at the seaside with her awkward servant. A Marxist vampire comedy.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

547

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total

Trivia
Although the movie premiered in March 2021 at the Berlin International Film Festival, in the german speaking countries Germany, Switzerland and Austria the movie was geo-blocked. Therefore there was the exceptional case that it ran on a german film festival, but neither the german press nor the german audience were able to see it at the time.

Goofs
In two scenes in which Octavia is smoking marijuana (one with Lyovochka, the other alone sitting on the staircase), the joints change in size randomly.

Connections
References October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)

User reviews2

Featured review

Underrated and fun

A symbolist movie and maybe even a "semiologic" narrative with a fresh approach. Discusses and reflects capitalist, oppressive, post-truth, and unequal societies in a lighthearted, Brechtian manner. Lovely, witty, and surely a good cheer. Some reviews about this movie are simply unfair. Unfair to creativity, the narrative, the director, the writing, and the vision. In a world where Aronofskys are praised and overrated, I can understand that a movie like BlutSauger is not understood and is underrated. It is a colonial, capitalist, polished, hunger-gamed fascism; people abstain from intelligence, wits, and creativity (not AI replicated, but actual human creativity).