Overgames

Overgames (2016)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2016-04-21
  • User Rating: 6.9/10 from 9 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 44min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Director:
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Summary

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.

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  • Directing Lutz Dammbeck Director
    Writing Lutz Dammbeck Writer
    Editing Margot Neubert-Maric Editor
    Sound J.U. Lensing Music
    Production Lutz Dammbeck Producer
    Camera Eberhard Geick Director of Photography
    Camera Volker Tittel Director of Photography
    Camera Börres Weiffenbach Director of Photography
    Camera István Imreh Director of Photography