Film

Overgames

2016 · 2h 44m · Documentary

IMDb

7.2

On a talkshow, actor and German TV ikon Joachim Fuchsberger recalls how the games for his show "Nur nicht nervös werden" (Don't Get Nervous), first broadcast on West German TV in 1960, were developed along the lines of American psychiatry. Asked "So how many crazy people watched you?", he responded: "A whole crazy, psychologically disturbed nation". Why were the Germans or to be more precise, the West Germans, a psychologically disturbed nation at that time? This is a film about cheerful and serious games, therapies for re-education and self-imposed re-education, as well as the history of the idea of permanent revolution. Those appearing include directors and producers of gameshows, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and the diversely paranoid.

Lutz Dammbeck

Self

Julischka Eichel

Narrator

Sebastian Rudolph

Narrator (voice)

Rick Prelinger

Self

Bob Boden

Self

Philip Zimbardo

Self

• Lutz DammbeckWriter · Director · Producer
• István ImrehDirector of Photography
• Eberhard GeickDirector of Photography
• Börres WeiffenbachDirector of Photography
• Volker TittelDirector of Photography
• Margot Neubert-MarićEditor

Release date

April 21, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

2h 44m

Genres

Documentary

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