Movie

The Specimen (2002)

• January 1, 2002
• 18m

Overview

When, before the revolution, accidentally arrested, the philistine - a tsarist civil servant of high status - falls in deep, lethargic sleep. 20 years later he wakes up and finds himself in a post-revolutionary, still young Soviet Union. He is stunned. He is shocked. But a philistine always finds his way.

Director

Ulrike Ottinger

Writers

Ulrike Ottinger

Starring

Hanns Zischler, Raymond Wolff, Thorsten Heidel