The day after winning the 2014 World Cup, Helge Achenbach boards the plane back to Düsseldorf and is arrested at the airport upon arrival. A savvy dealer of art who has turned the big wheel falls: the splendor and misery of West Germany, major purchases, province and the longing of the up-and-comer. He is in jail today. Behind a great history of the art business, an even larger one of neoliberalism immediately emerges — in works, ghosts and bodies from the Rhineland. The central question: How did the Beuys dictum: “Everyone is an artist” become the Ich-AG? What really happened in Germany in the last 25 years? With the SPD? The hopes of 68? The art? Director Jan Bonny and artist Alex Wissel present their open scenic research on this, as an invitation to the film and art scene at the same time. With Matthias Brandt, Bibiana Beglau and Joachim Król as art figures who, in the spirit of Helmut Dietl, are just a tad off reality. And with them, the possibility of a big social satire appears; or as one scene says: “I'm getting my hands dirty here, Josef. For social sculpture.” Ten cinematic sketches, which are being shown as world premieres for the first time in their current entirety — in cooperation between Haus der Kunst and Filmfest München.

Production: Heimatfilm, Cinzano Film, Maike Drinhausen
Cast: Matthias Brand, Joachim Król, Bibiana Beglau, Roland Silbernagl, Franziska Hartmann, Merle Wasmuth, Guido Renner and others
Director: Jan Bonny
Screenplay: Jan Bonny, Alex Wissel, Jens Schillmöller
Production manager: Maike Drinhausen
Camera: Jakob Beurle
Casting: Susanne Ritter
Production design: Julia Baumann
Costume: Ulrike Scharfschwerdt
Editor: Fridolin Körner
Color grading: Fridolin Körner
Music: Caroline Kox, Antonio de Luca, Lucas Croon

Length: 113 min