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Overgames

2016 · 2h 44m · Documentary

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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Cast

• Lutz Dammbeck as Self
• Julischka Eichel as Narrator
• Sebastian Rudolph as Narrator (voice)
• Rick Prelinger as Self
• Bob Boden as Self
• Philip Zimbardo as Self

Details

Director

Lutz Dammbeck

Released

April 21, 2016

Runtime

2h 44m

Genres

Documentary

Studio

Lutz Dammbeck Filmproduktion, ARTE and RBB

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.9 / 10 from 9 votes