The dead

torches, others sit on packed suitcases. Betrayal and lies, fear and passion, love and violence determine the lives of the people. The Swiss director Emil Nägeli wants to make a film that captures the whole essence of his time. This film, Amakasu, the Japanese co-producer hopes, will establish a German-Japanese axis and drive the Hollywood flicks out of the movie theatres of Germany and Japan. With locations in Berlin and Tokyo, in Switzerland and Hollywood, with guest appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Heinz Rühmann, Christian Kracht creates an oppressive historical picture puzzle about the existence of man: "absolutely most.