Berlin Star Film United Pigs Jun 2026

They weren’t good. Klaus was a tyrant with a cleaver for a megaphone. “More pain, Yuri! You’re not lifting weights, you’re lifting the weight of a failed nation!” He’d throw raw liver at them to simulate blood splatter. Their audience? A single, one-eyed stray cat Klaus called the “Critic.”

Berlin’s underground film scene has produced hundreds of unreleased, self-distributed, or ephemeral works shown only in squats or at the now-defunct Berlin Porn Film Festival or Absolut Medien . Titles like United Pigs (2015, dir. “Kumpel Klaus”) might exist only as a VHS rip or a private YouTube link. Berlin Star Film United Pigs

Berlin, near future. A washed-up film star (famous for playing a cop in a ‘90s TV show) is hired to host a reality competition called “United Pigs,” where police officers from different countries compete in brutal tasks. The show is secretly funded by a radical anarchist collective aiming to expose police brutality. When the star realizes he’s become a symbol of oppression, he must choose between fame and redemption. The film cuts between glossy competition scenes and grainy backstage political debates. They weren’t good

In the grimy, rain-slicked back alleys of Berlin, nestled between a defunct punk club and a Turkish supermarket, stood the “Berlin Star Film United Pigs.” It wasn’t a cinema, nor a production house. It was a butcher shop. But not for sausages or schnitzel. You’re not lifting weights, you’re lifting the weight