1928: Lyovuschka, a Soviet worker, is cast in the role of Trotsky for Eisenstein‘s latest film, but quickly finds his dreams of an actor‘s life shattered when Trotsky falls into Stalin‘s disfavor. Exiled from his homeland, he poses as a wealthy baron and finds himself stuck in a glamorous seaside resort in Germany awaiting a barge that will take him to Hollywood. A summer romance kicks off when he meets the eccentric factory owner Octavia Flambow-Jansen - it's just too bad there are vampires around.
Alexandre Koberidze (Georgisch: ალექსანდრე კობერიძე; born October 19, 1984; Tbilisi) is a Georgian filmmaker, screenwriter, editor and actor. He is currently studying cinema at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. "Colophon" (2015) is his first short film and was presented in Oberhausen. His second feature, "Let the Summer Never Come Again" (2017) has been to FID Marseille where it won the Grand Prix of the International Competition. In 2021 Koberidze received for his second feature film "What do we see when we look at the sky?" (2021) an invitation to the competition at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival . [14] In the almost two and a half hour long work, he again devoted himself to the “poetry of aimlessness”, as previously shown in Let the summer never come again . [15] The romance film takes place in the Georgian city of Kutaisi and is about lovers who fall victim to a curse. Although the work did not receive an award from the competition jury, Koberidze was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize.