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Otto is Dead

A deadbeat guy gets a second chance at life after a bureaucratic mistake leaves him legally dead.

synopsis

Otto Fuchs has felt dead inside for years. Paralysed by fear of pretty much anything, he has wasted his life in a middle-class bubble. After a stranger steals his identity and dies in a freak accident, Otto is mistakenly declared dead. Now Otto has a chance to start anew, but will he go back to his old life or reinvent himself? He discovers that the man who stole his identity was a criminal fixer known as The Hoff. Otto adopts this persona which becomes a form of therapy to exorcise all his fears while trying to “fix” the illegal, bizarre and outrageous problems of Frankfurt’s citizens by stealing a golden cock ring from a corpse at a burial, infiltrating the Serbian mafia’s sex dungeon, and kidnapping a clown for his healthy kidney. From junkies to bankers, everyone has The Hoff’s number on speed dial. Only now, Otto is answering the phone. It turns out that being a fixer was just the boost he needed to start feeling alive again. But nothing comes for free, especially second chances.

Director’statement

The project started with one question: what would you do if you could start over? We set out to explore how one special person uses his second chance at life, and we came up with this crazy German crimedy.

TFL PROGRAMME:
SeriesLab 2019
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