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1982
- Etwas wird sichtbar
- Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
- K.D.D.: Why make war films? As a character in "Between Two Wars" suggests:
'I tried to learn a lesson for the living from the lives of the dying.' In "Before
your Eyes - Vietnam", a voice-over talks about war as basically an experiment,
not unlike film itself. What is the film-war analogy for you?
H.F.: I always try to avoid this analogy. In 1968 this very strange analogy was born: a camera is a gun. You also see it in discussions of the Gulf War in the media. There's too much narcissism in the filmmakers and newspeople nowadays who believe they are producing reality. All these claims stem from the idea that anyone who controls computers and cameras also controls reality. So there's not really an analogy for me.
K.D.D.: Can we return to "Before Your Eyes - Vietnam" for a moment? Why make a film on Vietnam in 1981, many years after people stopped talking about the war?
H.F.: One reason was that I wanted to take a stand against all this retro stuff that was going on in the United States. Let's take Coppola, for example, in "Apocalypse Now". Yes, it's a great film, I thought. No problem. But there is a problem. Let me make a comparison. Imagine we only made films about the psychological problems of the people who ran the concentration camps, and never about the victims. That's what America does. There are two hundred movies about how difficult it was to come back from Vietnam, being unemployed or traumatized, etc. View More »
- director: Harun Farocki assistant
- director: Ursula Lefkes script-
- writer: Harun Farocki script: Karl-
- Heinz Wegmann cinematographer:
- Ingo Kratisch second cinematogra-
- pher: Rainer März, Peter Wirths
- assistant cinematographer: Wolf-
- Dieter Fallert editor: Johannes
- Beringer sound: Rolf Müller, Manfred
- Blank mixing: Gerhard Jensen music:
- Markus Spies cast: Anna Mandel,
- Marcel Werner, Hanns Zischler, Inga
- Humpe, Bruno Ganz, Jeff Layton,
- Ronny Tanner, Hartmut Bitomsky,
- Rainer Homann, Olaf Scheuring,
- Michael Wagner, Elfriede Irrall, Ingrid
- Oppermann, Wilhelm Menne narrator:
- Till Hagen production: Harun Farocki
- Filmproduction, Berlin-West, ZDF,
- Mainz executive producer: Ulrich
- Ströhle length: 114 min. format:
- 35mm, b/w, 1:1,37 first screening:
- 24.01.1982, Saarbrücken
- (Max-Ophüls - Preis) first release:
- 26.02.1982, Berlin-West (Cinema Bundesallee)
- first broadcast: 05.09.1984, ZDF
- distributor: Basis German Film Board
- classification: Prädikat "Wertvoll" of
- high artistic quality and social relevance)
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1982
- Kurzfilme von Peter Weiss.
- Vorgestellt von Harun Farocki
- Farocki introduces the following films by Peter Weiss:
Studie II, Swe 1952
Studie IV, Swe 1954
Enligt lag (In the name of the law), Swe 1957
Ansikten i skugga (Faces in the shadows), Swe 1956)
Vad ska vi göra nu da? (What shall we do now?), Swe 1958)
- director, scriptwriter, commen-
- tary: Harun Farocki cinemato-
- grapher: Rainer März production:
- Harun Farocki Filmproduction,
- Berlin-West, for WDR, Köln length:
- 44 min. (1. broadcast version);
- 80 min. (complete version) format:
- 16mm, b/w, 1:1, 37
- first broadcast: 05.04.1982, West 3,
- (1. broadcast version), 08.11.1996,
- 3sat (complete version) note: The film
- was intended to be shown in two parts,
- in 1982 only the first part was broadcast