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ANOTHER GERMAN TANK STORY

ANOTHER GERMAN TANK STORY

Jannis Alexander Kiefer
DE, 2024, 96 Min

In this Brandenburg village miracles happened in the days of the composer Telemann, those days are long gone however .And yet there is reason for hope: Hollywood is shooting a film here about – what else? - the Second World War as matters take an unexpected turn in this dark comedy.

#feature #comedy #clash

Performance

2024-11-08 | 13:00
Weltspiegel Saal 2
2024-11-10 | 18:00
Weltspiegel Großer Saal

 

The newly appointed village mayor Susanne rushes frantically back and forth around the village. While "the film people" have barricaded themselves behind closed doors, the power goes out in the village, an abandoned tank suddenly appears in her garden and her ex-boyfriend Bert turns up. The failed journalist is hoping for the story of his life here as the world famous James G. Johnson has announced that he is due to arrive. Meanwhile, his son Tobi starts his first job - as a driver for the production team of all things, even though he hates cars and doesn't even have a driver's license.

Captured with a static camera, dim lighting caused by a power outage and a set design rich in DDR relics, this film downplays the obvious culture clash and instead looks, at once unobtrusively and lovingly, at the lives of these villagers who, have high hopes from the big wide world’s invasion of their province as they might, find that their fates do not necessarily take the turn they hope for.

Text: Rainer Mende

08.11.2024 | 13:00 | Weltspiegel Saal 2 (German original version with English subtitles)

10.11.2024 | 18:00 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (German original version with English subtitles)

Supporting film: ADOLF, SITZ! (Zoran Solomun, DE 2024, 12 min)

Drehbuch
THERESA WEININGER & JANNIS ALEXANDER KIEFER
Kamera
ADAM GRAF
Produzent
LOTTE RUF, FRITHJOF STÜCKEMANN, CHRISTOPH DEGENHART
Produktion
MAZE PICTURES
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