In Germany, they call the period just before the rise of Adolf Hitler "the dance on the volcano" — the late 1920s and early 1930s when German society, at least in the big cities like Berlin, seemed open, free, and exciting.
When no one seemed to notice they were on the edge of catastrophe. It's at exactly this moment in time — Berlin, 1931 — when Dominik Graf sets his new film, Fabian – Going to the Dogs.
Based on the 1931 novel by Erich Kästner, it stars Tom Schilling (Never Look Away) as Jakob Fabian, an ironic idealist working as an ad man who, like the rest of the country, has no idea what's coming.
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