{"id":53840,"date":"2025-10-14T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/?post_type=film&#038;p=53840"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:47:29","slug":"egghead-republic","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/en\/film\/egghead-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Egghead Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221;][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1631185421436{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Gioved\u00ec 30 ottobre 2025<br \/>\n20.00<br \/>\nRossetti<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Thursday 30th october 2025<br \/>\n20.00<br \/>\nRossetti<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728379372647{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5>Pella K\u00e5german &amp; Hugo Lilja<br \/>\nSweden 2025, 94\u2019<\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/trieste-sciencefiction-festival-2025\/\">Italian Premiere<br \/>\n2025_Neon \/ <strong>M\u00e9li\u00e8s <\/strong>Competition<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1710231564303{padding-right: 40px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]La fantascienza freaky si scontra con una satira implacabile del giornalismo balordo e degli eccessi indie sleaze in questo audace film dei registi svedesi Pella K\u00e5german e Hugo Lilja, basato sul romanzo post-nucleare di Arno Schmidt del 1957. In una realt\u00e0 alternativa in cui la Guerra Fredda non \u00e8 mai finita, il Kazakistan sovietico viene colpito da una bomba atomica. Sonja Schmidt, grazie alla risultante economia dell&#8217;esposizione, viene convinta dal magnate della cultura hip Dino Davis ad accompagnare una spedizione giornalistica ribelle in una base sovietico-americana che monitora una zona radioattiva del Kazakistan apparentemente piena di centauri irradiati.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Freaky science fiction collides with a ruthless satire of gonzo journalism and indie-sleaze excess in this audacious feature by ANIARA directors Sweden\u2019s Pella K\u00e5german and Hugo Lilja, based on the 1957 post-nuclear novel by Arno Schmidt. In an alternative reality where the Cold War did not end, Soviet Kazakhstan has been struck by an atomic bomb.Thanks to the \u2018exposure\u2019 economy created, Sonja Schmidt is persuaded by hip culture mogul Dino Davis to accompany a rebel journalistic expedition to a joint Soviet\/American military base that monitors a Kazak radioactive zone rumoured to be rife with irradiated centaurs.<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5>Sceneggiatura_Screenplay <strong>Pella K\u00e5german &amp; Hugo Lilja<\/strong><br \/>\nFotografia_Cinematography <strong>Malin Gutke<\/strong><br \/>\nMontaggio_Editing <strong>Oskar Blondell<\/strong><br \/>\nMusica_Music <strong>Juhana Lehtiniemi<\/strong><br \/>\nEffetti Speciali_Special Effects <strong>Arild Andersson<\/strong><br \/>\nInterpreti_Cast <strong>Ella Rae Rappaport, Tyler Labine, Arvin Kananian, Emma Creed<\/strong><br \/>\nProduttori_Producers <strong>Nina Lund, Pella K\u00e5german<\/strong><br \/>\nProduzione_Productions <strong>YouSavedMe, Nonstop Winning Formula, Film Stockholm, Film p\u00e5 Gotland, Film i Dalarna<\/strong><br \/>\nDistribuzione Internazionale_International Distribution <strong>Best Friend Forever<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1698237245454{margin-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_row_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1634544013693{margin-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biglietteria.ticketpoint-trieste.it\/dettaglio-spettacolo.php?negozio_spettacolo_id=1273\">Biglietteria<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/programma-2025\/\">PROGRAMMA<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1631189490529{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1729251073601{margin-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Neon<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728379385211{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_masonry_grid post_type=&#8221;film&#8221; max_items=&#8221;10&#8243; element_width=&#8221;3&#8243; orderby=&#8221;menu_order&#8221; order=&#8221;ASC&#8221; item=&#8221;52255&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1761245444318-a7841eb3-697d-5&#8243; taxonomies=&#8221;692&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h5>Pella K\u00e5german &#038; Hugo Lilja<br \/>\n<br \/>Sweden 2025, 94\u2019<br \/>\n<br \/>\u2014<br \/>\n<br \/>2025 Neon<\/h5>\n<p> <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefictionfestival.org\/en\/film\/egghead-republic\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53919,"menu_order":510302000,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[695],"neon":[692,690],"class_list":{"0":"post-53840","1":"film","2":"type-film","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-film-2025","8":"tag-30-10-2025","9":"neon-2025-neon","10":"neon-film-2025"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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