Description |
2 videodisc (DVD)s (approximately 296 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in |
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Edition Filmmuseum ; 27 |
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Edition Filmmuseum ; 27
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Contents |
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit = The blind director (106 min), 1985 -- Blinde Liebe: Gespräch mit Jean-Luc Godard (24 min.), 2001 -- 16 Minutenfilme (17 min.), 1970 -- Vermischte Nachrichten = Miscellaneous news (96 min.), 1986 -- Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt (13 min.), 1967 -- Ein Arzt aus Halberstadt (29 min.), 1970 -- Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908 (11 min.), 1973 |
Summary |
Two feature films and five shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge |
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Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit: In this "film essay," director Alexander Kluge examines the nature of technology and (urban) identity, the intersection of film and new media in the creation of art, and the delusive quest to manipulate time. There are two different stories with both fictional and documentary aspects. In one story, a foster parent cares for a traumatized young girl who is now an orphan after witnessing a car crash that killed both her parents. After the foster-parent does the right thing and takes the girl to her aunt --her court-appointed guardian -- she is shocked to see that neither the wealthy aunt nor her servants are very interested in the girl. An unusual decision follows. In the other story, a director goes blind in the middle of a film project but has to be kept on because of his contract. This situation leads to some philosophizing on the nature of film and art in the modern world |
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Vermischte Nachrichten: This drama strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly. A side plot follows a meeting between former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and East German leader Erich Honecker |
Notes |
Title from the container |
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"Eine Präsentation des Goethe-Instituts in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Filmmuseum München und mit Unterstützung der Kulturstiftung des Bundes"--Container |
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Films were originally produced 1967-2001 |
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Presented in TV format 4:3 |
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Includes booklet with texts by Alexander Kluge in German and English |
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DVD-ROM includes texts: Filmalbum von Weinmann/Kluge, Neonröhren des Himmels |
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Disc does not include Zwischen Mitternacht und der vierten Nachtstunde and Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer as listed on the container |
Credits |
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit: camera, Thomas Mauch, Werner Lüring |
Cast |
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit: Jutta Hoffmann, Armin Mueller-Stahl |
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Vermischte Nachrichten: Marita Breuer, Rosel Zech, Sabine Wenger, André Jung, Sabine Trooger |
Notes |
DVD (PAL); region code 0; Dolby digital 2.0 (mono) |
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In German with optional English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian subtitles |
Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Fiction films
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Feature films
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Experimental films
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Documentary-style films
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Short films.
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Video recordings.
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Author |
Kluge, Alexander, 1932-
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Hoffmann, Jutta, 1941-
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Mueller-Stahl, Armin, 1930-
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Breuer, Marita.
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Zech, Rosel, 1942-2011.
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Münchner Stadtmuseum. Abteilung Film.
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Goethe-Institut (Munich, Germany)
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Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
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Edition Filmmuseum (Firm)
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