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Overgames

04/21/2016

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2hrs 44min

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Documentary

STORY

On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched you?", he responded: "A whole crazy, psychologically disturbed nation". Why were the Germans or to be more precise, the West Germans, a psychologically disturbed nation at that time? This is a film about cheerful and serious games, therapies for re-education and self-imposed re-education, as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution. Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and the diversely paranoid.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Lutz Dammbeck
  • Julischka Eichel
  • Sebastian Rudolph
  • Rick Prelinger
  • Bob Boden

    Director

  • Lutz Dammbeck

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion
  • ARTE
  • RBB
  • WDR

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • German

Cast

Julischka Eichel

Narrator

Sebastian Rudolph

Narrator (voice)

Bob Boden

Self

Philip Zimbardo

Self

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