<p><strong>A post-modern faux-thriller about obsession, guilt and wanting to ‘off' your dad. </strong></p>

<p>Irascible and lazy, Rupert ‘Ratz' Kramer is a 35-year-old slacker who plays out his patricidal fantasies through the development of a violent computer game. A chance call from an old flame sends him to New York, where he hopes to sell his creation to a games company, but instead becomes embroiled in events that begin to pose increasingly uncomfortable moral questions.</p>

<p>Part thriller, part psychological family drama, part exploration of German-Austrian war guilt, this film from Michael Glawogger (<em>Slumming</em> and <em>Workingman's Death</em>, MIFF 06) defies categorisation.</p>

<p>Adapted from the novel <em>Das Vaterspiel</em> by Josef Haslinger.</p>

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