“Der Bunker“ has been receiving a lot of love (and mystification) recently at basically every festival it got screened at. On paper it’s about a fairly eccentric family suffering from delusions of grandeur and the nameless student who’s temporarily living with them to finish his final thesis in the seclusion of their home. Things start to get slightly fishy when they insist that he should tutor their son Klaus, who is supposed to become the President of the United States anytime soon, regardless of the fact that he’s neither American nor the sharpest knife in the drawer in the first place.

One of the strongest aspects about Nikias Chryssos' debut “Der Bunker“ certainly is that it’s much more than just a sequence of loosely sketched absurdities. Instead it effectively combines elements of grotesqueness and horror and offbeat comedy under the disguise of an intimate play that just loves to be manifoldly interpretable. Bold and brilliant. And finally ready to officially hit German and US screens in the very near future.