Film

Palette revisited

2005 · Documentary

Die Palette was a legendary basement bar at 55 ABC Street, where a colorful crowd of dockworkers, vagrants, students and runaways, artists and petty criminals gathered in the 1950s and early 1960s. With his novel Die Palette, published in 1968 – four years after the bar closed – Hubert Fichte created a literary monument to this venue. Conversations with former Palette regulars, pictures, and documents bring the scene of that time back to life: What did the Palette look like? What music blared from the jukebox? What about sex? And what about hitchhiking? Who, pray tell, was the sheriff? And what did that actually mean—subculture in Hamburg in the 1950s?

Harun Farocki

Will-Roger Föll

Uta Juster

Ulrich Krause

Mac Rugenstein

Cäsar Schwieger

Joachim Stoll

Horst Vocke

Henry Weder

Hubert Fichte

• Theo JanßenDirector
• Jan-Frederik BandelWriter
• Gerd HaagProducer
• Sebastian SchultzEditor

Release date

October 19, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

German

Genres

Documentary