Otto; or, Up with Dead People

Jan 19, 2008

1h 34m

★ 5.3

Is it possible to come back from the dead?

Overview

A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is still trying to finish Up with Dead People, the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that he has a wallet that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember details about his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.

Genres

Drama

Horror

Comedy

Production Companies

Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion

Existential Crisis Production Inc.

Otto; or, Up with Dead People Trailers

Cast

Otto

Jey Crisfar

Medea Yarn / Lascivious Ballet Dancer #1

Katharina Klewinghaus

Hella Bent / Lascivious Ballet Dancer #2

Susanne Sachße

Fritz Fritze

Marcel Schlutt

Rudolf

Gio Black Peter

Adolf

Guido Sommer

Maximilian

Christophe Chemin

Amusement Park Zombie #1

Max Di Costanzo

Young Man in Hooded Sweatshirt

Nicholas Fox Ricciardi

Man in a Suit and Hat

Keith Böhm

Woman in a Black Burqa / Woman on Subway #1

Olivia Barth

Old Woman

Stephanie Heinrich

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