Violetta is one of London’s wealthy elite, rich and beautiful but pathologically dissatisfied with life. When her mind starts to destroy her body, she finds help in Dr. Gunter Berezovsky, a brilliant blood specialist and cultured psychopath who treats the city’s super-rich. As they become closer, a disturbing game plays out between them; one that will show her the truth about herself, and the society she inhabits. What she learns will change her forever.
DIRECTOR: Monika K. Adler
CAST: Patrycja Płanik
GENRE: Drama, Psychological Horror, Thriller
COUNTRY: UK
SCREENPLAY: Monika K. Adler, Aeon Rose
IMDB: Sick Bacchus
FILMMAKERS
MONIKA K. ADLER
DIRECTOR/WRITER
Monika K. Adler is an acclaimed photographer and debut film director based in London, The United Kingdom. Her photography, short films and videoworks have shown in hundreds of film festivals, video art screenings, contemporary art galleries and museums internationally. These have included: Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; The Houses of Parliament, London; Photo London, Somerset House, London; Gislaveds Konsthall, Sweden; The State Museum of Gulag, Moscow; West Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands; Façade Video Art Festival, Plovdiv; CICA Museum, South Korea; BBC 100 Women, London; Edinburgh International Festival; Ilmin Museum, Seoul; Sobering Gallery, Paris; Films On Art, Portugal; National Press Gallery Seoul, Korea; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK and The National Art Gallery Wozownia, Torun, Poland.
CAST
PATRYCJA PŁANIK
LEAD
Patrycja Płanik is an award-winning actress known for her spectacular debut in Andreas Horvath’s film, Lillian (2019), for which she received best female performance at the 27th Art Film Festival, Slovakia; Seymour Cassel Award for best actress at the 26th Oldenburg Film Festival, and Defiance Fuel Geraldine Page Award for Best Actress at the 14th Method Independent Film Festival. She is also a photographer, visual artist and filmmaker. She co-directed the film ‘Faggots’ (2021) which won twenty awards worldwide, including the German Independence Audacity Award at Oldenburg Film Festival.
SCRIPT & DIALOGUESAEON ROSEMONIKA K. ADLER
PRODUCTION COMPANYONTOLOGY FILMS
ARTICLES
Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive, Monika K. Adler, 19 August 2023
“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” – Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
Interview: Monika K. Alder, Tydzień Polski, London
Piotr Gulbicki, Tydzień Polski, UK Edition, 11 October 2019
Interview: Films and Sick Bacchus
Interview with Director Monika K. Adler, Authority Magazine, July 2019
Interview: ‘Wszystko czai sie w oczach’
Piotr Gulbicki, Tydzien Polski, March 2019
Harper’s BAZAAR: Inside 209 Women
Ellen Peirson-Hagger, Harper’s BAZAAR, Nov 28 2018
VOGUE Italia: PhotoVogue
Profile: Monika K. Alder, 2013 – 2018
The Ambivalent Body: On The Short Films of Monika K. Adler
Film Critic Robert Smart, 2013
The Female Artist as Naked Signifier
Film Critic Robert Smart, 2014
Selected Works
Monika K. Alder (2003 – 2013), 2013
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