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1998
- Der Finanzchef
- From material produced for The Interview. Contribution to the magazine program Brut (arte). (production statement)
- director, scriptwriter: Harun Farocki cinematographer:
- Ingo Kratisch editor: Max Reimann sound: Ludger Blanke
- researcher: Ludger Blanke production: Harun Farocki
- Filmproduktion, Berlin, for Süddeutschen Rundfunk, Stuttgart
- producer: Harun Farocki TV-producer: Juliane Endres
- length: 7 min. format: video-BetaSP, col., 1:1,37
- first broadcast: 06.03.1998, arte
1998
- Worte und Spiele
- The new production plants for the daily chat- and game shows are on the periphery; in the case of Unterföhring near Munich on the extension to the Bahnhofstraße named Medienallee (Media Avenue). This industry is so new, that it cannot as yet reliably predict costs and extra costs, profits and extra profits; its most important raw material is the ordinary, everyday person. They are cheap and they want to make an appearance, but are they worth showing? The ordinary people follow the call, which goes out via teletext, and after preliminary screening they are received by droves of producers and assistants. The assistants are of student age. They explain the rules of the game, help practice entrance and exits, they enquire into and repeat life histories. It is their task to refine the daily inflow of the masses and with angelic sensitivity, to try and instill a little decorativeness. A few years ago they would have been found in the healing or caring professions. View More »
- director, scriptwriter: Harun
- Farocki cinematographer: Ingo
- Kratisch, Rosa Mercedes, Ludger
- Blanke editor: Max Reimann
- light design: Leo Lumen technicians:
- Horst Brams, Anna Faroqhi sound:
- Ludger Blanke, Sylvia Mittelstädt, Rolf
- Merker music: Markus Spies after
- Johannes Brahms, Opus 121 Denn es
- geht dem Menschen wie dem Vieh
- collaboration / researcher: Ludger
- Blanke production: Harun Farocki
- Filmproduktion, Berlin TV-producer:
- Bernd Michael Fincke length: 68 min.
- format: video-BetaSP, col., 1:1,37
