LesArt.Festival: Daniel Donskoy - Brennen

In the organizer's words:

A wild road trip through the life of a young man who only wants one thing: to feel alive

"Brennen" is a breathless journey, full of excesses, bizarre encounters, across borders, to the edge of abysses - and always back to the summers of youth in Tel Aviv, to Tyler and a night that changed everything.

Twelve years after fate tore the two apart, the narrator is compelled to write to his friend Tyler about the life that has since passed. Of filming in the Russian snow shortly before the war, of a Sicilian hunting party and a fearless dachshund, of a film studio in flames near Auschwitz, of the existential struggle against a powerful British woman - a story of exuberance, despair and burning passion.

In a language that both stirs and comforts, Daniel Donskoy writes about new beginnings, intoxication and the longing to belong. You laugh out loud - and the next moment it hits you right in the heart.

Daniel Donskoy, born in Moscow in 1990, grew up in Berlin and Tel Aviv. After training as an actor in London and New York, he soon became one of the most internationally sought-after German actors of his generation. He has starred in successful Netflix and Disney+ productions as well as acclaimed feature films. He developed and hosted the award-winning ARD show "Freitagnacht Jews".