Fear not, dear reader, for Lutz Ebersdorf has an IMDb page with almost nothing on it. I suppose the fact that his profile is completely empty shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. After all, Guadagnino insists he was a complete nobody prior to discovery. His page contains only one thing of note: a bio, which has been written by Ebersdorf himself. His main photo looks a little too staged, a little too "just so" to be the main photo picked by an 80-year-old German man. Shouldn't it be a poorly cropped photobooth snap from a 2006 Macbook or something along those lines?
The deeper you dig, the stranger it gets. Perhaps the only truly tangible thing one could glean from Ebersdorf's bio is "Piefke Versus," the experimental theater group he claims to have cofounded in the 1960s. There's no trace of this group anywhere on the internet, and its short art films are coincidentally "believed to be lost films."
When you good "Lutz Ebersdorf," one thing pretty exclusively pops up: a bunch of articles and photos of Tilda Swinton. Strange.
