Happiness Is A Warm Gun

Variationen über eine wahre Geschichte

Thomas Imbach

Happiness is a warm gun yeah eh
happine-e-ess is a warm gun
when I hold you in my arms
and I feel my finger on your trigger …

Petra, the 1980's “green queen” and peace activist, is shot in her sleep by her lover and political ally, former West German army general Gert. He kills himself shortly afterwards. Was it murder, or did she want that shot? What happens to Petra, from the time Gert’s bullet enters her skull to the moment it lodges in her brain and she dies? She experiences a flash-forward to the present time and wakes up in the glassy transit zone of an international airport. On her trip through this modern purgatory Petra struggles to unravel the meaning of the shot together with Gert and other figures from her life. In the explosive moment between life and death, she recognizes the force of her most absolute desires.

"Imbach set out to make Happiness Is a Warm Gun, a fantastical biopic that begins where the life of Petra Kelly ends. The setting is purgatory (which looks exactly like an airport), where Petra (Linda Olsansky) is found waiting to take flight to a spiritual eternity. Gert (Herbert Fritsch) appears on the scene a moment later and thus begins Petra's investigation into their demise. As Gert explains his actions, flashbacks reveal critical players and decisions in their combined past. Highly experimental, the film is more concerned with representing a moment of death rather than unearthing new facts about a controversial event that may never fully be understood."
Connor McMadden, All Movie Guide

Thomas Imbach

Born in 1962 in Lucerne. Independent filmmaker based in Zurich. With his production company Bachim Films produces own work. Recipient of numerous awards both in Switzerland and abroad.

2007 I WAS A SWISS BANKER
2006 LENZ
2002 HAPPY TOO
2001 HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN
1998 NANO-BABIES
1997 GHETTO
1994 WELL DONE
1991 RESTLESTNESS
1988 SCHLACHTZEICHEN

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