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Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

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Germany 09: 13 Short Films About The State Of The Nation
Theatrical Release Poster
Directed byFatih Akin, Wolfgang Becker, Sylke Enders, Dominik Graf, Martin Gressmann, Christoph Hochhäusler, Romuald Karmakar, Nicolette Krebitz, Dani Levy, Angela Schanelec, Hans Steinbichler, Isabelle Stever, Tom Tykwer, Hans Weingartner
Produced byDirk Wilutzky
Production
companies
Herbstfilm Produktion GmbH, NDR – Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Distributed byPiffl Medien Filmverleih
Release date
  • March 26, 2009 (2009-03-26)
Running time
140 min
CountryGermany

Germany 09 (German: Deutschland 09 – 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation) is a German anthology film composed of 13 short films that contemplated the state of Germany at the time.[1] It was conceived as a rejoinder to the 1977 anthology film Germany in Autumn (composed of shorts directed by 11 different filmmakers, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Edgar Reitz and Volker Schlöndorff) after 30 years of German history have passed.[2]

Shorts

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According to the film's official website, "Each of the participating directors interprets his personal perception and his own cinematic view of contemporary Germany, abstractly or concretely, freely in the choice of format and content. The individual contributions could be short feature films, documentary films, essayistic or experimental."[3]

Segment Director(s) Writer(s)
The Name Murat Kurnaz (German: Der Name Murat Kurnaz) Fatih Akin
Sick House (German: Krankes Haus) Wolfgang Becker
Lopsided (German: Schieflage) Sylke Enders
The Way We Do Not Go Together (German: Der Weg, den wir nicht zusammen gehen) Dominik Graf & Martin Gressmann
Séance Christoph Hochhäusler
Ramses Romuald Karmakar
The Unfinished (German: Die Unvollendete) Nicolette Krebitz
Joshua Dany Levy
First Day (German: Erster Tag) Angela Schanelec
Fracture (German: Fraktur) Hans Steinbichler
A Democratic Round Table at Scheduled Times (German: Eine Demokratische Gesprächsrunde zu festgelegten Zeiten) Isabelle Stever
Festive Travel (German: Feierlich reist) Tom Tykwer
Endangerers (German: Gefährder) Hans Weingartner[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Germany 09, 13 Short Films About The State Of The Nation (Deutschland'09, 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation)". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
  2. ^ "Germany 09 hits theatres". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
  3. ^ "DEUTSCHLAND 09". deutschland09-der-film.piffl-medien.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-02.
  4. ^ "13 Kurzfilme | DEUTSCHLAND 09". deutschland09-der-film.piffl-medien.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-02.
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