Overgames
7.3
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.
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Lutz Dammbeck
Self
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Julischka Eichel
Narrator
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The Typist
Toni Erdmann
Margot Neubert-Maric
Sebastian Rudolph
Narrator (voice)
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J.U. Lensing
Rick Prelinger
Self
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Bob Boden
Self
Philip Zimbardo
Self
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Lutz Dammbeck Director · Volker Tittel Cinematographer Börres Weiffenbach Cinematographer
First release June 28, 2015 · Produced in Germany · Languages English, German
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Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion
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ARTE
Production
RBB
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WDR
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RBB Fernsehen
Production
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
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Germany
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Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
Germany · June 28, 2015
Premiere · Munich International Film Festival
Germany · April 21, 2016
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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