The Rammstein singer appears in a short film touting GGPoker, an online poker platform headquartered in the Isle of Man.
In this four-minute clip, directed by Specter Berlin – who also worked on Rammstein’s iconic “Deutschland” and “Farewell” videos – Lindemann plays a series of evil characters engaged in a game of poker.
Lindemann also plays the dealer, but the ad is quick to stray into uncharted territory: there’s a sword fight, blood licked from a cut on Till’s cheek, a kind of burglary strewn with rose petals, and a brief passage where our hero struggles at sea as a violent storm rages.
There’s also a German voiceover which, according to our presumably inaccurate machine translation, doesn’t really help decipher what’s going on.
“I can laugh again”says Till. “It’s not hard. I don’t cut. Not even you. Luck waits for no one. No blood on any card. I stopped freezing in the light of day. I started walking in at night. I’m secretly looking at the stars. I think I love myself again. I’m controlling my rage. I think I’m doing fine. I go to the beach once in a while.”
And so on.
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