Films: 2001
An antsy feeling
Love at great age
Katrin Bühlig, graduate of the Ludwigsburg Film Academy, caused something of a stir with her graduation film about the Chanson singer Johannes Heesters, "Before the Final Curtain". Still fascinated by the subject of old age, An Antsy Feeling sees her turn the lens on men and women who brave new love and new relationships in their advancing years. Not always to the joy of their families and friends and not always with a happy ending... 2001, BR, 75 min
Anybody answering?
Trümmer literature in post-war Germany
Nina, a young social sciences student, is working on a study of her grandfather, a literary critic in the year 1945, and his commitment to the Trümmerliteratur ("rubble literature") in post-war Germany. Together with Patrick the historian, she gets stuck into researching that period in contemporary history. The high point of the film is Nina's attendance at a staging of the main work of Trümmerliteratur, Wolfgang Borchert's "The Man Outside" by the Vorpommern regional theatre. Texts by Alfred Andersch and Hans Werner Richter, lyrics by Günther Eich and Wolfdietrich Schnurre, prose by Heinrich Böll and Wolfgang Borchert form the literary… 2001, Goethe-Institut, InterNationes, 30 min
Lake Tegernsee´s secret treasure
Spring 1945: The allies increase their air strikes on German towns and advance further into Europe. The war is as good as lost. In Munich, a young Swiss architect, who works for the Bavarian Administration for Palaces, Gardens and Lakes, decides to save priceless works of art before they are plundered or destroyed in bomb attacks. It is a dangerous undertaking, as removing works of art from museums is seen as defeatism, and every action which demonstrates a lack of belief in an ultimate German victory, is considered as high treason. Tino Walz, who was 33 years-old at the time,… 2001, BR, 45 min
Missing Allen
The Man Who Became a Camera
In November 1995, the American cameraman Allen Ross vanishes without a trace, having just completed the shooting for a documentary about the Mississippi. None of his friends knew that Allen had moved away from Chicago to become the member of a small sect, and the lover and husband of its high priest… Christian Bauer, who was a friend of Allen Ross, begins to search for him in 2000 – and the film becomes a detective story with an open end. It shows us the dark side of America and leads us into the world of salvation-seekers, UFOs and sects with… 2001, arte/BR/SR, 92 min
Poltergeists and other Spooks
There are countless stories of ghosts, apparitions and execrated places, of poltergeists and relatives who make some kind of sign at the moment of their passing. In his film, Matti Bauer proves that spooky business is not just a British speciality, but that there are plenty of strange occurrences in Bavaria. At the Stockenfels castle in Upper Palatinate there are rumours of ghosts of crooked publicans and a devil who plays cards for the life of an innocent hunter. In Chiemgau, the ghost of an Augustine Father calls the vicar to the last anointing and in a Rosenheim lawyers office,… 2001, BR, 45 min