Documentary

Overgames

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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.

Release Date : 2016-04-21

Language :EnglishGerman

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Lutz Dammbeck FilmproduktionARTERBBWDR

Production Country : Germany

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Cast

Lutz Dammbeck

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Original Name : Lutz Dammbeck

Gender : Male

Julischka Eichel

Character Name : Narrator

Original Name : Julischka Eichel

Gender : Female

Sebastian Rudolph

Character Name : Narrator (voice)

Original Name : Sebastian Rudolph

Gender : Male

Rick Prelinger

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Original Name : Rick Prelinger

Gender : Male

Bob Boden

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Original Name : Bob Boden

Gender : Male

Philip Zimbardo

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Original Name : Philip Zimbardo

Gender : Male

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