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Fabian: Going to the Dogs

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Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory during the day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy friend Labude at night. When Fabian gets to know the self-confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment. He falls in love. But then he too falls victim to the great wave of layoffs, while Cornelia makes a career as an actress thanks to her boss and admirer. An arrangement that Fabian finds difficult to come to terms with. But it's not just his world that is falling apart...
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Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Mar 3, 2022
There couldn’t be a more auspicious time for a movie about well-intentioned, troubled souls on the precipice of authoritarianism. Go to Full Review Pat Brown Slant Magazine Feb 11, 2022
3.5/4
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. Go to Full Review Ryan Lattanzio IndieWire Feb 11, 2022
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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. Go to Full Review Ryan Swen Film Comment Jul 14, 2025
In typical Graf fashion, the film resonates as both a fully fleshed-out melodrama and a grand portrait of the times. Go to Full Review Filipe Freitas Always Good Movies Sep 18, 2022
4/5
The stirring beauty of Graf’s drama comes from the genuine feelings transmitted by the leads, who, together with the editor Claudia Wolscht, contribute to the furiously cinematic outcome. Go to Full Review Gisela Savdie El Heraldo Aug 15, 2022
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Graf walks us through a mixture of genres that range from the most surreal to the most realistic, with an interesting development of the characters [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Dominik Graf

Director

Tom Schilling

Jakob Fabian

Albrecht Schuch

Stephan Labude

Saskia Rosendahl

Cornelia Battenberg

Meret Becker

Irene Moll

Michael Wittenborn

Justizrat Labude
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Synopsis Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory during the day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy friend Labude at night. When Fabian gets to know the self-confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment. He falls in love. But then he too falls victim to the great wave of layoffs, while Cornelia makes a career as an actress thanks to her boss and admirer. An arrangement that Fabian finds difficult to come to terms with. But it's not just his world that is falling apart...
Director
Dominik Graf
Producer
Felix von Boehm
Screenwriter
Dominik Graf, Constantin Lieb
Distributor
Kino Lorber
Production Co
Lupa Film, Arte, DCM Productions, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Doco Digital
Genre
Drama, History
Original Language
German
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 11, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 12, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA)
$25.0K
Runtime
2h 56m
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