UNIVERSAL THEORY | DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM

GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND | 2023 | B&W | DCP | 118’ | GERMAN, FRENCH

1962. In a Physics symposium in the Alps, a young student tries to complete his dissertation on a challenging theory about multiple realities. Soon, weird phenomena seem to confirm it, as ominous figures, strange clouds, inexplicable deaths, doppelgangers and a mysterious female pianist, which he falls in love with, appear. Perhaps the surprise of this year’s Venice FF Competition; the film is proudly inspired by Aronofsky’s ‘Pi’, Trier’s ‘Europa’, as well as Hitchcock and the Hollywood noir of the ‘40s and ‘50s. Thus it unfolds an ambitious cinematic structure, balancing audaciously between a cosmic thriller and a transformative love story proving that occasionally style is of the essence. Th.P.

DIRECTOR: Timm Kröger
SCREENWRITERS: Timm Kröger, Roderick Warich
DoP: Roland Stuprich
MUSIC: Diego Ramos
EDITOR: Jann Anderegg
PRINCIPAL CAST: Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, Philippe Graber, David Bennent

TIMM KRÖGER
He studied at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark, then at Filmakademie BW in Ludwigsburg, Germany. His first feature and graduation film ‘The Council of Birds’ premiered in Venice in 2014 at the ‘Settimana della Critica’. ‘The Theory of Everything’ is his debut feature as both writer and director.

FILMOGRAPHY
2023 Universal Theory
2014 The Council of Birds