‘Bloodsuckers’ Director Julian Radlmaier Sets Course for German-Soviet River Barge Punk Romance (EXCLUSIVE)
Ed Meza @edmezavarJulian Radlmaier, who made a splash this year with his Marxist vampire satire “Blutsauger” (“Bloodsuckers”), is developing a romantic river barge road movie as his next project.“Binnenschifffahrerin Birte” is an East-West love story that centers on an old housekeeper working in a western German hotel who fondly recalls her youth in 1980s East Germany, when, as a river barge captain, she experienced the one big adventure in her life: delivering an East German-made river barge to the Soviet Union.“The GDR [German Democratic Republic] was exporting a lot of ships to the Soviet Union,” Radlmaier explains.