Wen kümmert's : Summary
Volker Schlöndorff about Wen kümmert's:
“Around Frankfurt the Rote Hand was searching for Algerian campaign soldiers who had deserted the French Army and crossed the border into Germany. I wanted to show how in an apparently peaceful Germany, the French colonial conflict continued to exist by being silently tolerated. I enlisted my Moroccan friend Bekkai as an actor, Bertrand Tavernier as an assistant director, and Rim, my old friend from Wiesbaden, as the cinematographer.
My father's sailboat served as location and hiding place for the underground rebels. Renamed Tahia El Djezair – long live Algeria! – it was listed in the closing credits. The film was ‘not approved’ for release on the grounds that France was a political ally whose righteous war in Algeria could not be criticized by the German Federal Republic. I could not have dreamt of a more charming compliment than an officially-proclaimed ban. This otherwise inconsequential film, which I first called Die Wacht am Rhein, then Wen kümmert's and authored under my mother's nickname, ‘Loki’, became important quite unexpectedly as a result of this ban.”
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- 2004The Ninth Day
- 2001Ten minutes older
- 2000The Legends of Rita
- 1998Palmetto
- 1996The Ogre
- 1992Billy, how did you do it?
- 1991Voyager
- 1989A Handmaid's Tale
- 1987A Gathering of old Men
- 1985Death of a Salesman
- 1983Un Amour de Swann
- 1982War and Peace
- 1981Circle of Deceit
- 1980The Candidate
- 1979The Tin Drum
- 1978Germany In Autumn
- 1977Portrait of Valeska Gert
- 1976Coup de Grace
- 1975The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
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- 1972A Free Woman
- 1971Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass
- 1970Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach
- 1969Michael Kohlhaas
- 1969Baal
- 1967Der Paukenspieler
- 1966A degree of murder
- 1965Young Törless
- 1960Wen kümmert's