Michael Glawogger's Kill Daddy Goodnight looks to be unusual - and more than a little bit welcome - addition to the normal Austrian film mix. A picture that takes Europe's recent past past seriously without becoming bogged down in it, it is a stylish, blackly comic take on the current generation gap.
Vienna, 1999: scruffy twenty-something Ratz dreams of killing his corrupt politician father and developing a violent videogame to vent his anger. When old college flame Mimi calls from New York asking for help with her elderly grandfather, Ratz sees a chance to escape and to sell the latest version of his game. Yet the fate of his troubled family becomes intertwined with that of Mimi, and of Jonas, a Lithuanian Nazi hunter. Set on the cusp of the new millennium but shifting restlessly in time, Michael Glawogger's ambitious, unsettling fable warns of the insidious power of family secrets.
Kill Daddy Goodnight has its German theatrical release just around the corner and the first trailer has arrived. Check it below.

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