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Thomas Imbach
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 Roger is a young, dashing banker full of boyish self-confidence. He has a highly successful business, smuggling black money across the border for reinvestment. But then a split second reaction changes his entire life. |
 The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchner's novel fragment Lenz. But he soon trades the Alsatian landscape for higher altitudes and more emotional territory. | ||
 “The biggest damned ghetto”, is the way the school caretaker describes the classroom in which Xhumi and Müke are to spent their last few month at school. |
 An experimental view on the postindustrial world of office. | ||
 Petra Kelly, 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 Bastian. He kills himself shortly afterwards. Was it murder, or did she want that shot? |
 With the same penetrating gaze, irony and courage that Imbach used to probe the fantasy of activist romance in HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN, this time he takes aim at the myth of glamorous film acting. |