Veni Vidi Vici

In the organizer's words:

• AT 2024
• 86 min
• Director: Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
• FSK: from 16 years

Screenings:

• Thurs., January 9, 2025 - Wed., January 15, 2025 at 7:00 pm
• Thurs., January 16, 2025 - Sun., January 19, 2025 at 9:00 p.m.
• Tue, January 21, 2025 - Wed, January 22, 2025 at 7:00 pm

Performers: Laurence Rupp, Ursina Lardi, Olivia Goschler

VENI VIDI VICI is a film about winners and losers, about us and the others. A bitter political satire about the omnipotence of the super-rich à la TRIANGLE OF SADNESS.

Amon and his wife Viktoria (Ursina Lardi) not only like Mozart, they also read the author Ayn Rand, who defended turbo-capitalism and radical individualism in her books. With her disarming smile and her profession as an advocate for the humiliated, Viktoria gives the family a positive image, which is reinforced by two small non-white adopted children. The eldest daughter, Paula (Olivia Goschler), comments on the events from off-screen - and brings us closer to the "difficult decisions" her father had to make. We quickly learn that everyone knows what they are doing. Cruelty is gaining pleasure from the suffering of others. To a greater or lesser extent, we are all tempted to torture our fellow human beings. Money is not an end in itself, but the power of money gives us the opportunity to buy our way out of guilt and atonement.