Otto; or, Up with Dead People

• Drama
• Horror
• Comedy

A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is still trying to finish Up with Dead People, the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that he has a wallet that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember details about his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.

Otto; or, Up with Dead People is a 2008 drama-horror-comedy that follows a confused young zombie navigating Berlin after appearing on a remote highway with no memory of his past. Discovered by an underground filmmaker working on her own zombie film, Otto begins to reconstruct his life while caught between the worlds of the living and the dead. The film blends dark humor, political commentary, and genuine emotional stakes as Otto searches for answers about who he was before death.

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