The Weimar Republic (1918 to 1933) was the freest time that ever existed in German territory; a wild era characterized by disruptions, crises and brilliant cultural life. It was also the most important period of German cinema, full of wonders and invention, in which the aesthetic foundations of the "seventh art" were founded.
The cinema showed German society after the First World War in a permanent dance on the volcano, between hedonistic lust and a latent fear of destruction: an explosive combination. Siegfried Kracauer described this era in "Von Caligari zu Hitler", the best-known German film book to date. It shows the presence in the cinema of war neurosis, fear, crisis and the desire for a leader; that is, the way in which cinema presaged the era of fascism and anticipated its terror and the moral and political collapse of a liberal society. This film investigates the topic and traces the diversity and beauty of the era's creation, showing that Weimar cinema remains a continent to be discovered. Much more than Expressionism, it was a New objectivity, an escapist spectacle, excitement and fun. And he looked the crisis in the eyes.
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Category: International Panorama
Director: Rüdiger Suchsland
Script: Rüdiger Suchsland based on Siegfried Kracauer
Producer: Martina Haubrich and Gunnar Dedio
Photography: Harald Schmuck and Frank Reimann
Editor: Katja Dringenberg
Sound: Tobias Schinko, Enrico Leube, Tobias Fritzsch and Juergen Schulz
Duration: 118'
Germany, 2014
This film is presented within the framework of the Santiago International Documentary Festival, FIDOCS.
Nov 13, 2016
Sun, 6:45 p.m.
Room A1
Building A, floor 1
$2,500 General.
$1,500 Est. and 3ed.
Sale available only at GAM Ticket Office.