SummaryBerlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory by day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy and debauched friend Labude by night. When Fabian meets the beautiful and confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment and falls in love. Not long ... Read More
Directed By:Dominik Graf
Written By:Erich Kästner, Constantin Lieb, Dominik Graf
Fabian: Going to the Dogs
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Generally Favorable
68
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Universal Acclaim
8.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
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Mar 5, 2021
88
Its characters are suffused with a paradoxical kind of fear that can only happen in a dream, the dread before an immense catastrophe that’s unavoidable because it’s already happened.
Feb 14, 2022
80
Fabian: Going to the Dogs is poetic, ugly, romantic, tragic, and side-splitting. Some sequences approach the edge of sanity, take a glimpse into the abyss, then the plot reassembles itself – but the threat of derailing remains, and it’s quite exhilarating.
Mar 16, 2021
75
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.
Mar 3, 2022
70
It takes some getting used to, and there are sequences more awkward in their motley-ness than pointed. But overall, it’s an effectively crashing intimacy created by the performances (especially the fizz and warmth Schilling and Rosendahl have together), Claudia Wolscht’s restless editing and Hanno Lentz’s camerawork.
Mar 16, 2021
67
Fabian – Going to the Dogs is well-meaning, but Schilling’s portrayal of Fabian is a poor symbol for this malaise.
Mar 5, 2021
60
Graf has spent most of his long career as a director of TV series and movies, and much of the staging lacks great originality. But this is made up for, in part, by the striking way the story of Jakob and his friends is told mixing the narrative drama with now old-fashioned “modernist” tech devices borrowed from the past.
Feb 8, 2022
50
A tram here, a car there, a little attention to wardrobe, and contrasting haircuts (a Hitler/Himmler buzz was the dead give-away somebody was a Nazi) and we get an idea of what this world looked like. But “Fabian” fails to immerse us in that world, and being as leisurely as a limited series in its pacing, loses the urgency of what to later audiences can only be a “cautionary” tale.
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Jan 1, 2023
9
Algo nesse filme me lembrou o "Apolo 10 e meio" do Linklater, não pelo enredo em sim, mas por tentar retratar uma época a partir de um cotidiano mais simples, cujas pinceladas históricas estão ali para nos lembrar, neste caso, o horror do ****, sem exatamente se aprofundar no tema.
Fabian é um jornalista na Alemanha da década de 1930, que a aspirante a atriz, fica desempregado. Suas relações e amizades são típicas de uma juventude da primeira metade do século XX, e é interessante como são mostrados lugares e bares do submundo de Berlim, com direito a lésbicas, drags, drogas e muito álcool. Não sei até que ponto tais cenas são anacrônicas, no entanto, a cada alguns minutos, seja em matérias de jornais, informações no rádio ou mesmo uma batida nas ruas, percebemos a clara sensação de insegurança e de medo tomando as ruas de Berlim.
O romance é tudo meio repentino, mas o que me ganhou nesse filme foi o tom lírico e realista que muitas das cenas são feitas, chega a ser não convencional em alguns momentos, ainda que esteja contando uma história clichê, não o faz de maneira óbvia.
Outro ponto positivo é que as tragédias de ocorrem no filme (duas mortes impactantes) não tem a ver diretamente com o partido social nacionalista nascente, embora todo aquele ambiente de instabilidade, tenha sim causado impacto psicológicos.
Em suma, é um filme bem gostoso de assistir, os atores estão muito bem em seus respectivos papéis, Dominik Graf consegue em quase 3 horas realizar um filme não cansativo, divertido, reflexivo e emocionante.
Production Company:
- Lupa Film
- DCM Pictures
- Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
- ARTE
- Amilux Film
- Studio Babelsberg
- Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM)
- Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF)
- Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM)
- Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
- FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
Release Date:Feb 11, 2022
Duration:2 h 56 m
Awards
German Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations
German Film Critics Association Awards
• 6 Nominations
Guenter Rohrbach Filmpreis
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations





























