Otto, or In the company of the dead

As such, the through story in the film is missing. There are several lines that are not just intertwined, but become parts of each other. General outline: avant-garde director Medea Jarn makes two films - “In the Company of the Dead” and “Otto”.

The first tells about the near future, when zombies , having managed to evolve, create their own communities and even try to fight for their rights using radical methods. At the same time, zombie homosexuals are of particular importance, they rape, kill and devour parts of healthy men (according to Medea, it does not matter in what order it is). The main characters of the film “In the Company of the Dead” are gays Maximilian and Fritz. After the first one commits suicide , he becomes a zombie, kills and tries to eat his boyfriend. However, after Fritz returns to life, both zombies even try to engage in sex life, including the holes Maximilian has eaten in Fritz’s body. However, society is very aggressively set to the living dead, who remind the living of their inevitable future. Once the heroes are attacked by a gang of hooligans that burns Maximilian. Then Fritz begins to create his gang to fight the living, turning gays into zombies. The film Medea ends with a gay orgy of gay zombies among pieces of dismembered bodies.

Otto line develops in parallel. According to the plot, Otto is really a living corpse. However, returning to the world of the living brings him nothing pleasant - he becomes an outcast, forced to eat dead animals. One day he sees a poster inviting Medea Jarn to casting a new film about zombies. Otto makes a great impression on the director, so she asks the actor who played the role of Fritz to shelter him. He refuses at first, and then invites Otto to his house. Once they even have sexual intercourse, after which Otto commits self-immolation in the morning. However, this is just another episode of the film Medea. The real zombie Otto after the end of filming just goes from Berlin to the north.

• Jay Krisfar - Otto, the zombie
• Katharina Kleviinghaus - Medea Jarn, director of the film “In the Company of the Dead”
• Suzanne Sakhse - Hella Bent, Her Mistress
• Guido Sommer - Adolph, brother of Medea and the operator of her films
• Marcel Schlütt - Fritz Fritze, the main character of the film “In the Company of the Dead”
• Christoph Schémen - Maximilian, another protagonist of the film “In the Company of the Dead”
• Giovanni Andrade - Rudolph

• International LGBT Film Festival in Milan, 2008

Award in the nomination "Best Film" ^[2]

On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film has a 40 percent "rotten" rating (calculated on the basis of 20 reviewers' reviews) with an average score of 4.7 out of 10. ^[3] Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle review: ^[1]

A zombie having sex with a partner’s open wound may not be the most shocking scene in this movie. In other words, taking a small child with you to view the picture, if you could not find a nanny for him, is a bad idea.

Original Text (Eng.)

This is the sixth most shocking thing in this film. If you can't find a babysitter.

• I am a zombie: a chronicle of pain

• "Otto, or in the company of the dead" (eng.) On the site allmovie
• " Otto, or In the Company of the Dead ” (English) on the Internet Movie Database
• "Otto, or the company of the dead" (eng.) On the site Rotten Tomatoes
• Movie page on Metacritic website