Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation

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2009 German film

March 26, 2009 (2009-03-26)

Running time

140 minCountryGermany

Germany 09 (German: Deutschland 09 – 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation) is a German anthology film composed of 13 short films that contemplated the state of Germany at the time.^[1] It was conceived as a rejoinder to the 1977 anthology film Germany in Autumn (composed of shorts directed by 11 different filmmakers, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Edgar Reitz and Volker Schlöndorff) after 30 years of German history have passed.^[2]

Shorts

According to the film's official website, "Each of the participating directors interprets his personal perception and his own cinematic view of contemporary Germany, abstractly or concretely, freely in the choice of format and content. The individual contributions could be short feature films, documentary films, essayistic or experimental."^[3]

Segment	Director(s)	Writer(s)
The Name Murat Kurnaz (German: Der Name Murat Kurnaz)	Fatih Akin
Sick House (German: Krankes Haus)	Wolfgang Becker
Lopsided (German: Schieflage)	Sylke Enders
The Way We Do Not Go Together (German: Der Weg, den wir nicht zusammen gehen)	Dominik Graf & Martin Gressmann
Séance	Christoph Hochhäusler
Ramses	Romuald Karmakar
The Unfinished (German: Die Unvollendete)	Nicolette Krebitz
Joshua	Dany Levy
First Day (German: Erster Tag)	Angela Schanelec
Fracture (German: Fraktur)	Hans Steinbichler
A Democratic Round Table at Scheduled Times (German: Eine Demokratische Gesprächsrunde zu festgelegten Zeiten)	Isabelle Stever
Festive Travel (German: Feierlich reist)	Tom Tykwer
Endangerers (German: Gefährder)	Hans Weingartner^[4]

References

^ "Germany 09, 13 Short Films About The State Of The Nation (Deutschland'09, 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation)". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
^ "Germany 09 hits theatres". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
^ "DEUTSCHLAND 09". deutschland09-der-film.piffl-medien.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-02.
^ "13 Kurzfilme | DEUTSCHLAND 09". deutschland09-der-film.piffl-medien.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-06-02.