While working on "Deutschlandbilder" (1983), Hartmut Bitomsky was examining film material produced by the Nazi regime when he came across an abundance of footage documenting the planning and construction of motorways. In this found footage documentary he investigates what this material actually says: the motorway is stylized within it as a promise of progress and modernity, a "lifeline of the nation", less a straightforward piece of infrastructure than a prestige object, a work of art.
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Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
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Hartmut Bitomsky Director
United States release March 18, 1987 · Produced in Germany · Production WDR
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Big Sky Film
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WDR
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Germany
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Original language
German
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German
Release dates
Germany · February 15, 1986
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United States · March 18, 1987
New York City, New York
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