Plots(1)
76.5 years – the average lifespan of a German man. 76.5 minutes – the length of this filmic essay on the nature of time. The filmmaker suffers from chronophobia, and he comes to terms with the painful passing of the years with the help of a collage of images and stories emphasizing concrete things. The film possesses an almost obsessive order: one minute, one year of life.
An arcane metal apparatus with a flash disappears in the stream of time like the famous DeLorean. In this “back to the future”, however, it is not cinematic magic. The private becomes the fantastic, and memories become sci-fi.
(Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
Cast
Nina Petri
West Germany
Best movies:
No Place to Go (2000)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Deadly Maria (1993)
Marc Zwinz
West Germany
Best movies:
Tough Enough (2006)
Das Wunder von Berlin (2008) (TV movie)
Stromberg - Der Film (2014)
Jakob Benkhofer
West Germany
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Nord bei Nordwest (2014) (series)
Mats Kampen
Best movies:
Mario (2018)
Praxis mit Meerblick (2017) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Jo Brauner
German Empire
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) - a.f.
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)