Berlin Film Fest 1984. The best place for every cinema fan. Everyone wants to be in on the festival, but that may be really difficult, if one has no accreditation. Also Journalist Matthies gets to know the rules of being in or out when he wants to see a screening and is not welcome. Thus he watches an old German silent flick which he is barely interested in. The next day the newspapers are full of reports about a newly discovered German masterpiece from the silent era. It seems that Matthies had luck. He just saw *the* film everybody is talking about now. Also everybody is speculating about its director, who remains unknown. When Matthies talks to Ackrewa, an old befriended projectionist, about the film, the latter seems to recall the name of the director. Matthies decides to research the case. An odyssey into film-history begins and if it is successful Matthies will come up with a top story.
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Leonard Lansink
Klaus-Uwe Matthies
Known for
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Werner Grassmann
Fritz Ackrewa
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Gad Klein
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Volker Stollberg
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Philip Behrens
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Kino/Kritik. Über die Wörter, den Sinn und das Geld von Filmen
Heiner Stadler Director · Rolf Giesen Screenplay Ulrich Enzensberger Screenplay
United States release April 28, 1985 · Produced in Germany · Production Independent Feature Project, Katrin Seybold Film GmbH
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NDR
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Independent Feature Project
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Katrin Seybold Film GmbH
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Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Production
Germany
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Original language
German
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German
Release dates
Germany · April 26, 1985
Theatrical
United States · April 28, 1985
Theatrical
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