HOW TO LIVE IN THE GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC

5.7

1990

83 min.

de

Original Title

Leben – BRD

Overview

A series of 32 short scenes, uniformly set in West German instructional and training classes, that show various tasks among the citizenry being done solely as the result of exhaustive preparation - everything from women preparing to give birth, to strippers stripping, to policemen making arrests. Farocki uses the material to savagely dissect the West German mode of life. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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