'GIVE IT UP!'

Jul 5, 2025

0h 16m

★ 10.0

THE STORY OF A MAN LOST IN TIME AND SPACE.

Overview

Loosely based on Franz Kafka’s short story, 'GIVE IT UP!' is a live-action animation odyssey through the confusion of life in the modern world. The narrative follows a lone salesman trapped in a timeless city, increasingly lost in his feverish dreams. Desperate, he races towards a train station as his last hope of escaping the city, encountering divine light, winding roads and the forces of bureaucracy. This deeply personal and referential work preserves Kafka’s absurd humour and pays homage to Weimar cinema of the 1920s, but also elevates the text to an existential meditation on authority, purpose and human helplessness.

Genres

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

Horror

Music

Animation

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Cast

MAN

Alexander Bigaliy

SCHUTZMAN

Sholto Kerr

MAN (additional)

Arseniy Makarov

MAN (additional)

Vladimir Makarov

"Three tales of sex and violence presented by TORO LOCO, a blood thirsty, perverted killer cowboy seeking and killing people that starred in some exploitation movie. He is showing his victims the movies before torturing and killing them with a cow skull. The first story deals with two inspectors hunting a cannibal serial killer called "The Tiger". The second is about a 'not-so-devoted' husband interested in having a night of perverted sex with a prostitute in a motel room. The third is a tragical love story between a poor, little man oppressed by his wife and an handsome boy with self-destruction tendencies.

4.2

Curriculum

Oct 9, 2006

Two hit men are sent to kill the same woman not knowing that they are competing to assassinate her.

7.3

The Flat

Jan 1, 1968

A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.

7.1

The Garden

Dec 6, 1968

Frank visits his friend Josef, who introduces him to his pedigree rabbits and his wife Mary. Frank is more interested in the slightly unsettling fact that Josef and Mary's garden fence is entirely made up of living people holding hands.

7.4

Alice

Aug 3, 1988

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare - no matter how twisted or odd that way must be.

5.0

The Meeting

Jan 1, 1984

An alien decides to find out how much humans actually know about extra-terrestrials. The directorial debut of Mykhailo Titov, a master of chimerical animation of the 80s, is based on the story of the Ukrainian science fiction writer Volodymyr Zayets.

6.3

What Happens In Your Brain If You See a German Word Like...?

Aug 29, 2015

A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word.

8.2

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Oct 16, 1970

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

7.7

On the Silver Globe

Feb 10, 1989

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

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0.0

V tunelu

Mar 14, 1969

While walking along the tracks, a young man encounters a 96-year-old man who lives inside a tunnel and refuses to leave.

6.7

Altered States

Dec 25, 1980

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

6.7

Disturbia

Mar 27, 2007

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

7.5

The Holy Mountain

Nov 29, 1973

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

6.0

Nightjar

Nov 10, 2019

Two young dancers seek the truth after the mysterious disappearance of their mother.

6.8

Help!

Jul 29, 1965

An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.

'GIVE IT UP!'

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