Fabian: Going to the Dogs

AroView: An edgy, three-hour historical drama set on the eve of the downfall of the Weimar Republic that thrillingly replicates to the free-wheeling modernist writing style of Erich Kästner’s celebrated 1931 novel, and thus feels more authentic than TV’s Babylon Berlin.

Beware the stylistically radical opening – the frenetic editing does settle down to tell a compelling story of a young idealist who falls in love with an actress beholden to a powerful movie producer, and palpably captures the decadence, romance and danger of the era without resorting to the usual tropes.

“The film’s freewheeling dynamism and stylistic elasticity allow Fabian to shake off the stuffier tropes of historical drama.” ~Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily

“Graf makes “Going to the Dogs” an unpredictable visual experience, bracingly experimental for a 68-year-old filmmaker who hasn’t run out of gas.” ~Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire