A film by Wilhelm Sasnal and Anka Sasnal
THE ASSISTANT based on the novel by Robert Walser of the same title
The film’s screenplay is based on the novel The Assistant by the Swiss writer Robert Walser.
The main character is an alter ego of the author himself, who earned his living as a copyist and a servant in wealthy households.
The story of Joseph Marti is a tale of the seduction of a man — of taming him, building a sense of belonging to a place and to people, until the loss of his sense of freedom.
The mechanism of humiliating a person through work is still at play today, which makes Marti a contemporary protagonist, one in whose life our own reality is reflected.
